to knock down a peg or two
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- Fuente de la expresión
- The Free Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- to knock somebody down a peg or two
- Variantes
- to [bring, knock, take] down a [notch, peg] [or two]
- Definición
- To criticise: to publicly report the errors or faults of someone.
- Contexto
- "Knives can be out for a second series," he says, his brow furrowing. "Especially when we got so much support for the first series and everybody was just overwhelmingly positive. So next year, regardless of the quality of the show, people will tend to go, “Lets knock you down a peg or two. And that is understandable. But the scripts are strong and the performances are all there, so we have every confidence that we are going to produce something great."
- Tipo de fuente
- webpage
- Autor
- Alexia Skinitis
- Título de la fuente
- Life after Poldark: what Aidan Turner did next
- Año
- 2015
- Web
- http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-12-03/life-after-poldark-what-aidan-turner-did-next
- Observaciones
- It is not so frequent with the sense of criticising.
The dictionary states that it can also be said “to knock down a peg” without “or two”, although we could not find any example. - Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Raro