to bring down a peg or two
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- Fuente de la expresión
- Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary & Thesaurus ©Cambridge University Press
- Estructura completa
- to bring somebody down a peg
- Variantes
- to [bring, knock, take] down a [notch, peg] [or two]
- Definición
- To criticise: to publicly report the errors or faults of someone.
- Contexto
- There is nothing British people like to do more than bring someone down a peg or two. So when Alan Pardew masterminded Chelsea first defeat of the season earlier today, the nation Twitter users were only ever going to react in one way: with unbridled, unapologetic glee.
- Tipo de fuente
- newspaper
- Autor
- Richard Innes
- Título de la fuente
- Chelsea finally lost a game - and Twitter did what Twitter does
- Año
- 2014
- Web
- http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/chelsea-finally-lost-game---4760986
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente