meet one's match

Encounter someone equal in ability to oneself, as in The chess champion was about to meet his match in a computer. This expression originated about 1300 as find one's match, but the alliterative meet was being used by the mid-1500s and has survived.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Uranus	yuw-RAY-nəs (English), YUWR-ən-əs (English)	Greek Mythology (Latinized)
EleonÓRa	-	Hungarian
Sophus	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Shakur	-	Arabic
Dumisani	-	Southern African, Zulu
Jaqueline	JAK-ə-leen (English), JAK-ə-lin (English)	English (Modern), Portuguese (Brazilian)