meet one's Waterloo
быть разгромленным, потерпеть поражение
Unfortunately our football team met their Waterloo when they played with the best team in our area.
Другие идиомы:
- meet up with (someone or something)
- meet the requirements (for something)
- make ends meet
- meet (someone) halfway
- meet one's match
- make a monkey out of (someone)
- make a mountain out of a molehill
- make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- monkey around with (someone or something)
- monkey business
- monkey on one's back
- monkey see, monkey do
- more fun than a barrel of monkeys
- make a clean breast of (something)
- make no bones about (something)