It almost 'beggars belief' [=it is very hard to believe] that anyone can be so cruel.
I heard you won the contest! You lucky 'beggar'!
a plot so complex that it 'beggars description'
(..) He has no use for the things of this world. He wants to knock them down and replace them with what? With fantasies. With beggars in the street. With nothing. Mother... there's something I want to tell you. Something the High Sparrow told me. You've spoken with him? (..)2016 TvShow: Game of Thrones Title: Book of the Stranger Season: 6 Episode 4
(..) myself about who I was. A collection of lies that would disappear in the light. The people I was trying to climb away from, the beggars in the street, the poor, they were closer to the truth than I ever was. So what did you do? I left to go and find them. (..)2016 TvShow: Game of Thrones Title: Book of the Stranger Season: 6 Episode 4