One of my Japanese classmates was having a hard time understanding the phrase "off the beaten track" and came to me for help. I told her that "beat" could also be used as "to make a path", as in "a well-beaten track". It got through to her eventually and she added that in Japanese they called it "a beast road".
I should have asked her more about this "beast road" but somehow I wrapped it up by simply saying "Ohh!Good to know!"