cut down to size | Idiomator

Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)Tohumbleorhumiliate, especially someone or something that isperceivedasoverlydomineeringor tooproud.Synonyms:bring down to size,knock down to size,trim down to size,whittle down to size2000, Efraim Karsh,Fabricating Israeli History: The "new Historians", page152:The war was seen by the Foreign Office as a golden opportunity to undo the UN Partition Resolution andcut Israel down to size'.2003, Gordon Donnell,Starliner, page10:The systemcut everybody down to size. I felt small and vulnerable.2015, Anita Anand,Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary, page87:If Arthur Oliphant's aim had been tocut them down to size, it worked: photographs taken at Somerville College in 1888 show Bamba and her sister looking diffident.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seecut,‎down,‎size.1995, Sidney Winter,Small and Medium-size Enterprises in Economic Development:There is, however, another general approach tocutting the potential client population down to size: establish criteria, grounded in the Bank's basic strategy, that restrict the range of enterprises that the Bank tries to reach.2007, Vannessa Goodship,Introduction to Plastics Recycling, page55:As the plastic moves between the stationary and rotating blades it iscut down to size.

Examples:

EN: I've waited a long time to see Whitey Kincade get cut down to size.
ES: Esperé mucho tiempo para ver a Whitey Kincade dominado así.
EN: And with the child he has found a world cut down to size, a world where he is happy.
ES: Con esa niña ha encontrado un mundo hecho a su medida, un mundo donde es feliz.
EN: He'll be cut down to size before this night's over.
ES: Lo haremos pedazos antes de que la noche terminé.
EN: Seeing him cut down to size like that.
ES: Verle en su sitio de una vez.
EN: She's probably got my old man's uniform all cut down to size. Pressed and ready to go another 20 years.
ES: Probablemente me achicó el uniforme de papá y... lo planchó, listo para 20 años más.
EN: I think it's everything we need, and don't tell me I'm the only one... that thinks Sam White's little movement needs to be cut down to size.
ES: Creoquees todoloquenecesitamos, ynome digasque soy elúnico... que piensa poco movimiento de Sam White tiene que ser cortado a la medida.
EN: I need to get all that cut down to size.
ES: Necesito reducir su tamaño.
EN: They'll need to be cut down to size, settings forged.
ES: Necesitarán ser cortados a medida y los ajustes forjados.
EN: He let himself be cut down to size.
ES: Permitió que lo hicieran a su medida.
EN: And I'm saying that some women need to be cut down to size.
ES: Y digo que algunas mujeres necesitan ser recortadas.
EN: All you have to do is sit back and watch a woman get cut down to size for sacrificing a fellow woman.
ES: Siéntese y vea cómo una mujer cae de rodillas en las elecciones por sacrificar a otra mujer.
EN: It had been cut down to size.
HI: यह गिरावट तुला में थी।
EN: "We have been cut down to size.
HI: हम तुझमें इतना डूब गए
EN: Time after time, Rafe is cut down to size.
HI: दिन-ब-दिन अब लुत्फ़ तेरा हम पे कम होने लगा
EN: Many were cut down to size.
HI: कई तो टूट गए तुझको आजमाने में ।

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