Idiom Breakdown

beat as one

//biːt əz ˈwɒn/ / /bit əz ˈwʌn//

ESPECIALLY EmotionsEnglish phrasal verbs formed with "as"

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Definition

To share the same feelings.

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"Thou, too, delightest in the freshness and the bloom; thine eye follows and answers mine in its admiration of the beautiful, and our hearts beat as one to the music and gladness of nature."
"It is all very fine to talk about love in a cottage, two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one, and all that sort of thing; but in any cottage that love wouldn't turn up his nose at there is very substantial rent to pay, and, even waiving the usual contingences, at least two mouths to be filled, that the most perfect singleness of thought, the most thorough union of hearts, can never make one."
"The Deus vult of the crusaders was no longer uttered with one voice from hearts beating as one. The Allah Khbur of the Saracens was the utterance of faith that was firm unto death."
"Their hearts had once beaten as one. How was it possible that she could still be here if her sister was not?"
"Two voices raised together call to the hearts of everyone and let them beat as one. And in that single heart beat is the unity of love proclaimed and given welcome."
"It was one of those rare and seldom-experienced times when the disciples of the Lord are perfectly united, when every heart beats as one, and when the same Spirit burns in every bosom. . . ."
"Their souls will yearn to beat as one, once again and this can only be done by the sealing of the bond."
"Asriel: Right now, I can feel everyone's hearts beating as one. They're all burning with the same desire."

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