take down a notch

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take down a notch 的定义

  1. Also, take down a peg. Deflate or humble someone, as in He's so arrogant that I wish someone would take him down a notch, or That defeat took them down a peg. Both notch and peg in this idiom allude to a series, the former of indentations, the latter of knobs, used to raise or lower something. Specifically, peg alludes to the pegs used to lower a ship's colors. Their figurative use dates from the second half of the 1600s. Also see cut down, def. 4.

take down a notch 近义词

take down a notch

等同于 bring to terms

更多take down a notch例句

  1. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  2. And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"
  3. Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
  4. That article noted that the F-35 does not currently have the ability to down-link live video to ground troops,.
  5. A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.
  6. The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
  7. I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
  8. His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
  9. So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.
  10. Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?