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beat down to size
beat someone down to size
and knock someone down to sizeFig. to make a person more humble, sometime by actual physical beating. If you keep acting so arrogant, someone is going to beat you down to size. It's time someone knocked you down to size. I'll try to be less arrogant. I don't want anyone to beat me down to size.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Piia | | PEE:-ah | Finnish |
Yiskah | | - | Biblical Hebrew |
Thiemo | | - | German, Dutch, Ancient Germanic |
Tierra | | - | Various |
Buddha | | - | History |
Roshan | | - | Persian, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali |