to [bring, knock, take] down a [notch, peg] [or two]
Contexto
Prometheus: I know you are dying for an opportunity to knock me down a peg, but you are way off base here and naive if you think anything I have said is untrue.
Alric the red: Is this any different than when I made a comment about what I preferred in seeing A Christmas Carol adapted, a completely harmless opinion you had to weigh in on? Here, the snarkiness in your original comment at least deserved a response. And if I were dying to bring you down a notch or two, I would have more opportunities than this. I have seen your comments in lots of places and just do not care.
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Autor
Alric the red
Título de la fuente
Watch Bill Nye Repeatedly Get Interrupted As He Tries To Say Profound Things (comments)
It is not so frequent with the sense of criticising.
We did not find examples, but the dictionary states that it can also be said “to bring down a notch” without “or two”.