meet one's Waterloo

Suffer a major defeat, as in Our team's done well this season but is about to meet its Waterloo. This term alludes to Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Belgium, in 1815, marking the end of his military domination of Europe. It was being transferred to other kinds of defeat by the mid-1800s.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Gilberto	jeel-BER-to (Italian), heel-BER-to (Spanish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
NoemÍ	no-e-MEE (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese
Ilmatar	-	Finnish Mythology
Pelagia	pe-LAHG-yah (Polish)	Ancient Greek, Greek, Polish
Poncio	PON-thyo (Spanish), PON-syo (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Artyom	ahr-TYOM	Russian