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