take down a peg / pɛg /

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take down a peg4 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
  2. Informal. a leg, either real or wooden: still on his pegs at 99.
  3. a notch or degree: to come down a peg.
v. 有主动词 verb

pegged, peg·ging.

  1. to drive or insert a peg into.
  2. to fasten with or as with pegs.
  3. to mark with pegs.
v. 无主动词 verb

pegged, peg·ging.

  1. to work or continue persistently or energetically: to peg away at a homework assignment.
  2. Informal. to throw a ball.
  3. Croquet. to strike a peg, as in completing a game.
adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. Also pegged. tapered toward the bottom of the leg: peg trousers.

take down a peg 近义词

take down a peg

等同于 mortify

take down a peg

等同于 puncture

take down a peg

等同于 reduce

take down a peg

等同于 bad-mouth

take down a peg

等同于 shame

take down a peg

等同于 belittle

take down a peg

等同于 bring to terms

take down a peg

等同于 chide

take down a peg

等同于 debase

take down a peg

等同于 degrade

take down a peg

等同于 depreciate

take down a peg

等同于 disgrace

take down a peg

等同于 downgrade

take down a peg

等同于 humble

take down a peg

等同于 humiliate

take down a peg构成的短语

  • peg away at
  • square peg in a round hole
  • take down a notch (peg)

更多take down a peg例句

  1. The company has also clarified that parents will be able to work remotely past the August 2021 date currently pegged for the workforce’s return to the office is children’s schools remain closed.
  2. We pegged from the start that Democrats would win the House and Republicans would hold the Senate.
  3. A season ago, SRS pegged the Canes as the league’s 13th-best team, just good enough to sneak into the playoffs and cause some chaos.
  4. Smooth, continuous curves contrast with curves that are merely continuous, but not smooth — the type of curve that features in Toeplitz’s square peg conjecture.
  5. This Möbius strip provides mathematicians with a new object to analyze in order to solve the rectangular peg problem.
  6. To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.
  7. And so the shaming of them, the public taking them down a peg or two, become moments to savor.
  8. But “economic diversity” is a square peg in a round hole, no matter how you feel about round holes.
  9. His team routed the British and hence, at the Patiala Peg, drinks are served in 75 ml glasses, compared to the standard 60 ml.
  10. It was meant to convey an off-the-peg, cheap suit, which was all the character would have been able to afford.
  11. He reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head.
  12. And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father.
  13. The throat, with the whole of the peg-box, is reduced slightly but consistently with strength and beauty of appearance.
  14. Edna had found her old bathing suit still hanging, faded, upon its accustomed peg.
  15. As the representative of his father-in-law, Haggard asked his lordship with punctilious hospitality if he would take another peg.