Examples:

• But it's a good place to beat a retreat from.
• The opposition was obliged to beat a retreat.
• But it's a good place to beat a retreat from.
• With the tyres steaming, I beat a retreat from the volcano, clutching my brand-new piece of planet Earth.
• Even up to today some parts of our cooperation have had to beat a retreat faced with the supremacy of other strong interests.
• We hope that sense will prevail and that the foreign invaders will withdraw from Iraq before the resistance of the Iraqi people forces them to beat a retreat.