take down a peg
卸任,卸磨杀驴,摘下帽子,摘下眼镜
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Definitions
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- : a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
- : Informal. a leg, either real or wooden: still on his pegs at 99.
- : a notch or degree: to come down a peg.
- : an occasion, basis, or reason: a peg to hang a grievance on.
- : Also pin .Music. a pin of wood or metal in the neck of a stringed instrument that may be turned in its socket to adjust a string's tension.
- : Informal. a throw, especially in baseball: The peg to the plate was late.
- : news peg.
- : Economics. the level at which some price, exchange rate, etc., is set.
- : British, Indian English. an alcoholic drink, especially a whiskey or brandy and soda.
- : British. clothespin.
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Phrases
- peg away at
- square peg in a round hole
- take down a notch (peg)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The company has also clarified that parents will be able to work remotely past the August 2021 date currently pegged for the workforce’s return to the office is children’s schools remain closed.
We pegged from the start that Democrats would win the House and Republicans would hold the Senate.
A season ago, SRS pegged the Canes as the league’s 13th-best team, just good enough to sneak into the playoffs and cause some chaos.
Smooth, continuous curves contrast with curves that are merely continuous, but not smooth — the type of curve that features in Toeplitz’s square peg conjecture.
This Möbius strip provides mathematicians with a new object to analyze in order to solve the rectangular peg problem.
To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.
And so the shaming of them, the public taking them down a peg or two, become moments to savor.
But “economic diversity” is a square peg in a round hole, no matter how you feel about round holes.
His team routed the British and hence, at the Patiala Peg, drinks are served in 75 ml glasses, compared to the standard 60 ml.
It was meant to convey an off-the-peg, cheap suit, which was all the character would have been able to afford.
He reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head.
And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father.
The throat, with the whole of the peg-box, is reduced slightly but consistently with strength and beauty of appearance.
Edna had found her old bathing suit still hanging, faded, upon its accustomed peg.