come down a peg or two

come down a peg or two

• [口语]受屈辱，丢面子；降低一格

• black bryone
• a hop and jump
• reverse order / situation / process etc
• Leiodidae
• errants
• forest green
• moundsman
• tensilely
• crowbait
• free-water knockout
• antigravity
• fiber-optic magnetometer
• selenium cells
• stick in the muds
• Elba
• leisured
• lateral canal
• neurologia
• gen up (on sth)
• indicatrix
• cooperations
• off the track
• secondary carbon atom
• laudabilities
• off-shore wind / current etc
• deaerating
• Herniated Disks
• plastify
• intercomparison
• radar command guidance
• arcuss
• beach crab
• data coding
• scrummager
• H-Y antigen
• deep-focus earthquake
• Salt Laker
• Sebastian
• jiujutsu
• in a lofty strain
• amadous
• disorderedness
• to the behoof of someone
• mallee-bird
• terga
• davit
• scurfies
• speleology
• tonography
• subphylar
• civil servants
• put one's pride in one's pocket
• suspension cable
• remain/stand aloof
• delegating
• bristly
• bottle blonde
• un-American
• autos-da-fe
• tilt-top
• improbables
• cast anchor
• apron stage
• bacterias
• specimen
• nonlinear capacitor
• Bluebeard
• stimulated
• radon
• caryatids
• borosilicated
• strong arm methods
• stripfilm
• gas masers
• St. -Jerome
• controvertible
• track-and-field
• plumbable
• leaguer
• harrower
• banksia
• equinoctial year
• obligatos
• tunneled
• Bentley,Eric (Russell)
• futuristically
• bedlamp
• pinchcocks
• Kozhikode
• opticists
• wickedest
• bulimarexias
• abasest
• kerb-crawlings
• temporal bone
• destruct system
• bloodlust
• heat stress index
• mercies
• Fenske-Underwood equation