Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “knock/take someone down a peg (or two)“ and its meaning is “make someone know/understand clearly that they are not as important than they think they are; humble, humiliate, embarrass, discomfit, demean.
Example Sentence: President Donald Trump needed to knock Joe Biden down a few pegs. He didn’t get the job done. Biden has the lead and did nothing to let it slip. Trump was belligerent, absolutely horrible, upbraided repeatedly by the Fox News moderator Chris Wallace for shouting over Biden. Trump embraced white supremacists. Those few yet undecided could not have been favorably impressed.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Trump v Biden in the first 2020 presidential debate: our panelists’ verdict and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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