put in the shade

put somebody/something in the shade

to be so interesting or so good that other similar people or things seem less important by comparison I thought I'd done quite well, but Claire's exam results put mine in the shade.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Embla	EM-blah (Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish)	Norse Mythology, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pippin (1)	-	Ancient Germanic
Emperatriz	em-pe-rah-TREETH (Spanish), em-pe-rah-TREES (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Ramessu	-	Ancient Egyptian
Siegbert	ZEEK-bert	German
Adad	-	Near Eastern Mythology