to bring down a notch or two
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- Fuente de la expresión
- The Free Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- to bring somebody down a notch 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
- 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.
- Tipo de fuente
- webpage
- Autor
- Alric the red
- Título de la fuente
- Watch Bill Nye Repeatedly Get Interrupted As He Tries To Say Profound Things (comments)
- Año
- 2015
- Web
- http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Watch-Bill-Nye-Repeatedly-Get-Interrupted-He-Tries-Say-Profound-Things-89357.html
- Observaciones
- It is not so frequent with the sense of criticising.
The dictionary states that it can also be said “to bring down a notch” without “or two”, although we could not find any example. - Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Raro