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1 take someone down a peg
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2 take someone down a peg (or two)
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3 peg
n. tentharing; pin; kapstok--------v. ophangen aan een haakje/kapstok; vastpennen (met een tentharing)peg1[ peg] 〈 zelfstandig naamwoord〉1 pin ⇒ pen, plug♦voorbeelden:5 the meeting was used as a peg to hang their complaints on • de vergadering werd gebruikt als voorwendsel om te kunnen klagenbuy clothes off the peg • confectiekleding kopen→ square square/————————peg2〈 pegged〉II 〈 overgankelijk werkwoord〉1 vastpennen ⇒ vastpinnen/pluggen♦voorbeelden:he's hard to peg down • je krijgt moeilijk vat op hem→ peg out peg out/
См. также в других словарях:
take\ down\ a\ peg — • take down a notch • take down a peg v. phr. informal To make (someone) less proud or sure of himself. The team was feeling proud of its record, but last week the boys were taken down a peg by a bad defeat … Словарь американских идиом
take down a peg — ( ● peg … Useful english dictionary
take down a peg — If you take someone down a peg, you make that person realize that they are not as important as they think they are. He was too proud. Somebody had to take him down a peg … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
take down a peg or two — wouldn t I just love to take that Mr. Bigshot down a peg or two Syn: humble, humiliate, mortify, bring down, shame, embarrass, abash, put someone in their place, chasten, subdue, squash, deflate, make someone eat humble pie; informal show up,… … Thesaurus of popular words
take down a peg or two — Meaning To lower someone s high opinion of themselves. Origin Possibly derived from the naval practise of tying flag ropes to pegs. The higher the peg, the higher the status … Meaning and origin of phrases
take\ down\ a\ notch — • take down a notch • take down a peg v. phr. informal To make (someone) less proud or sure of himself. The team was feeling proud of its record, but last week the boys were taken down a peg by a bad defeat … Словарь американских идиом
take someone down a peg — If someone is taken down a peg (or taken down a peg or two), they lose status in the eyes of others because of something they have done wrong or badly … The small dictionary of idiomes
take down a notch — or[take down a peg] {v. phr.}, {informal} To make (someone) less proud or sure of himself. * /The team was feeling proud of its record, but last week the boys were taken down a peg by a bad defeat./ … Dictionary of American idioms
take down a notch — or[take down a peg] {v. phr.}, {informal} To make (someone) less proud or sure of himself. * /The team was feeling proud of its record, but last week the boys were taken down a peg by a bad defeat./ … Dictionary of American idioms
Take down a peg — humble … Dictionary of Australian slang
take down a peg — Australian Slang humble … English dialects glossary