take the starch out of someone

take the starch out of someone US deflate or humiliate someone 〈美〉使泄气; 羞辱。

• be a fiddle
• numbat
• Swedenborgians
• armadillo
• Harnack's inequality
• step
• full-face
• scurvier
• gasifiers
• green goods
• prolamellar body
• propulsion
• cel
• edingtonites
• laddish
• antimasque
• keep one's nose clean
• there is every reason to do something
• get at sb / sth
• ichthyophagous
• MDiv
• hangnails
• gunnership
• elastic potential energy
• down(-)regulate
• in fear
• wellhole
• cementum
• caravaned
• chloridization
• Turkoman
• malign
• enchase
• romanys
• blockship
• epileptics
• manganese peroxide
• apprehensive
• electrostatic waves
• catchiness
• do sth for a laugh/for laughs
• Laurent half-shade plate
• pinnoite
• afterloading
• talk someone's head off
• nebulated
• popularly
• sociogram
• constant-resistance network
• unwreathe
• foppish
• ppt
• salt chuck
• subfields
• sandwiched
• asparagus fern
• gymkana
• see sth through
• tymbals
• semisecret
• weaners
• phonics
• Q banding
• cold case
• banatite
• -etic
• wolfeite
• adversatives
• bhutaneses
• killerdiller
• besottedness
• power station
• cry stinking fish
• guimpe
• ichthyosaurus
• stoneflies
• instrumentaria
• inquilinism
• stamp one's drum
• R Coronae Borealis star
• source document
• paralaurionite
• crawl
• furrow presser
• white lines
• shylocks
• infanticides
• knock someone off his feet
• flanneleted
• rub sb/oneself/sth↔down
• equilibrium vaporization ratio
• boll rot
• palinspastic map
• brehons
• echocardiographies
• compartmentalized
• unilinear
• finger shopping
• Christian Socialist
• trv.