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cut sb down to size
Definition
(Definition of cut sb down to size from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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cut noun (STYLE)
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cut off your nose to spite your face idiom
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cut out phrasal verb (DRIVE)
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cut out phrasal verb (STOP WORKING)
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cut sb dead idiom
- cut sb down to size idiom
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cut sb in phrasal verb
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cut sb off phrasal verb (DRINKS)
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cut sb off phrasal verb (PHONE)
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cut sb out phrasal verb
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cut sb some slack idiom
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SMART Thesaurus: Humiliating and degrading
Synonyms and related words:
- abase verb
- be under a cloud idiom
- bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
- bruise sb's ego idiom
- deflate verb (WEAKEN)
- degradation noun (BAD SITUATION)
- discredit noun
- disgrace noun
- disgrace verb
- dishonour noun
- dishonour verb
- humiliating adjective
- ignoble adjective
- ignominious adjective
- ignominy noun
- in the doghouse idiom
- ruin noun
- shameful adjective
- shoddy adjective (NOT RESPECTFUL)
- stoop to sth phrasal verb
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