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
Vilim	-	Croatian
Keren	-	Hebrew
Rachana	-	Indian, Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, Nepali
Jennifer	JEN-i-fər (English)	English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish
JustÝNa	-	Czech
Margarida	mar-ga-REE-də (Portuguese)	Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, Occitan