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
'Ali	‘ah-LEE:	Arabic
Seisyll	-	Ancient Celtic
Chipo	-	Southern African, Shona
Ulla	OOL-lah (Finnish)	Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, German
Kartik	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Agapito	ah-gah-PEE-to	Spanish, Italian