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meet one's match
meet one's match
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.
See also:
match
,
meet
Common Names:
Name
Gender
Pronounced
Usage
Britney
BRIT-nee
English (Modern)
Carina (1)
kə-REEN-ə
(English)
, kah-REE-nah
(German)
English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Late Roman
Laurent
lo-RAW
N
French
Singh
-
Indian (Sikh)
DrahomÍR
-
Czech
Constanze
-
German
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