cut the ground from under / feet

cut the ground from under somebody/somebody's feet

to make someone or their ideas seem less good, especially by doing something before them or better than them The opposition claimed today's speech was an attempt to cut the ground from under their feet.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Hidde	-	Frisian
Priya	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali
Ranko	-	Serbian, Croatian
Aurora	ow-RO-rah (Spanish), ə-RAWR-ə (English), OW-ro-rah (Finnish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, German, Romanian, Finnish, Roman Mythology
Wilda	WIL-də	English
Hjalmar	YAHL-mahr (Swedish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish