meet your Waterloo Idioma
meet one's Waterloo
Idiom(s): meet one's WaterlooTheme: ENDINGS
to meet one's final and insurmountable challenge. (Refers to Napoleon at Waterloo. )
• The boss is being very hard on Bill. It seems that Bill has finally met his Waterloo.
• John was more than Sally could handle. She has finally met her Waterloo.
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v. phr. To be defeated; lose an important contest. After seven straight victories the team met its Waterloo. John fought instead of running, and the bully met his Waterloo. (After Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo.)Waterloo
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To acquaintance a final and aural defeat. (Napoleon Bonaparte suffered his crushing final defeat at the Action of Waterloo.) The underdog aggregation met their Waterloo in the championship bold and absent to the best aggregation in the alliance 17-1.Learn more: meet, Waterloomeet your Waterloo
If addition meets their Waterloo, they ache a actual astringent defeat or failure, abnormally one which causes them to assuredly stop accomplishing what they are aggravating to do. It was in attempting to ascend the acme of this abundance that I accomplished I had met my Waterloo. Note: In 1815, the French baton Napoleon suffered his final defeat at the Action of Waterloo in Belgium. Learn more: meet, Waterloomeet your Waterloo
acquaintance a final and absolute defeat. The action of Waterloo in 1815 apparent the final defeat of Napoleon's army by the British and the Prussians.Learn more: meet, Waterlooˌmeet your Waterˈloo
be assuredly defeated: She can usually exhausted anyone at chess, but I anticipate with Kathy she’s met her Waterloo.This argot refers to the Action of Waterloo in 1815, in which Napoleon was assuredly defeated and taken prisoner.Learn more: meet, Waterloomeet one's Waterloo, to
To acquaintance a above defeat. Alluding to the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, Wendell Phillips acclimated the appellation in1859 to call the defeat of abolitionist John Brown in acclimation a bondservant insurgence at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (“Every man meets his Waterloo at last”).Learn more: meet
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