meet your Waterloo
Definition
› to be defeated by someone who is too strong for you or by a problem that is too difficult for youExperiencing difficulties
(Definition of meet your Waterloo from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be in the soup idiom
- be riding for a fall idiom
- be up against it idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- be/get bogged down phrasal verb
- beleaguered adjective
- difficulty noun
- hard-pressed adjective
- have a thin time (of it) idiom
- have fun and games idiom
- have your back to/against the wall idiom
- in a stew idiom
- pushed adjective
- rocky road idiom
- stranded adjective
- stuck adjective
- the heat is on idiom
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Experiencing difficulties
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