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Caroline Tran
2020-11-12 09:11
Meet your Waterloo verb phrase
This is the first time she has failed, she must have met her Waterloo.
I met my Waterloo in the running competition and lost.
To quit; to give up, stop doing something because you know that you cannot succeed; admit defeat
Beat someone up
1. To become shabby or worn along the edges when talking about fabric or threads
2. To become weaker or less effective, or start to fail
1. To fail completely
2. To become separated from something that was stuck to
The verb "meet" should be conjugated according to its tense.
The idiom derived from the 1815 battle outside the Belgian town of Waterloo, where Napoleon Bonaparte was finally defeated by forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington. "Waterloo" became synonymous with things that are difficult to handle.
Do you see anything wrong?
To argue with somebody
I do not want to bandy words with you about those trivial things.
