what you are when you have made a
significant mistake and/or error in judgement and gotten caught doing so and are about to pay the price. The "beast" can be your boss,
girlfriend/boyfriend, wife/husband, a judge, or a competitor,pretty much anybody really.
Guy 1: "The cop saw me pissing
out the window of her car and now I'm being brought up on
indecent exposure, public
intoxication, and drunken and disorderly charges. That's like $2,000 in fines!"
Guy 2: "Dude, you are meat for the beast."