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词汇 cut-down-to-size
释义

cut someone down to size


idiom
to show someone that they are not as clever or important as they think: 使…有自知之明;挫…的傲气
Someone should cut that man down to size!应该有人挫挫他的锐气!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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abasement
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exhibition
ignobly
ignominious
ignominiously
ignominy
in the doghouseidiom
shoddily
shoddiness
shoddy
stoop
stoop to something

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