Idiom
take down a peg
Meaning
Synonym of take down a notch.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“His arrogance needs to be taken down a peg.”
“The boss took him down a peg after he bragged about his performance during the meeting.”
“After years of unchallenged success, the sudden failure of his project finally took him down a peg and forced him to reconsider his methods.”
Examples
simple
“His arrogance needs to be taken down a peg.”
contextual
“The boss took him down a peg after he bragged about his performance during the meeting.”
complex
“After years of unchallenged success, the sudden failure of his project finally took him down a peg and forced him to reconsider his methods.”
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