What is "missing a beat"

Usage examples of "missing a beat".

The plates were still making their uneven dance out the door, but she turned to me without missing a beat or spilling anything.

Regis replied without missing a beat, and his calm, cold tone made Drizzt's face contort with surprise.

Regis replied without missing a beat, and his calm, cold tone made Drizzt’.

But using 'em generally calls for the cooperation of the person being traced,' Thorn said without missing a beat.

Without missing a beat, he dodged the staggering, flailing figure, darting in and picking up the SIG-Sauer, steadying it on the dying warrior.

The Aries Rising Record Group which had been founded on Sixties ideals, or at least on what passed for ideals in the Sixties, grown in the Seventies and then embraced the materialism of the Eighties without missing a beat, was now a massive entertainment conglomerate on both sides of the Atlantic.