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bring/take someone down a peg (or two)
idiom informal
to show someone that they are not as important as they thought煞（某人的）威风，挫（某人的）傲气
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Humiliating and degrading
abase
abasement
be under a cloudidiom
bruise someone's egoidiom
cut someone down to sizeidiom
dishonour
dishonourable
dishonourably
doghouse
exhibition
ignobly
ignominious
ignominiously
ignominy
in the doghouseidiom
shoddily
shoddiness
shoddy
stoop
stoop to something
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