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
DaithÍ	DAH-hee	Irish
Emerens	-	Dutch
Elise	e-LEE-zə (German), e-LEE-se (Norwegian, Danish, Swedish), i-LEES (English), i-LEEZ (English)	German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, English
Hachiro	hah-chee-ṙo:	Japanese
Rodrigue	-	French
Sylvester	[sil'vestə]