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词组 meet your match
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Idiom
meet your matchmeet (your) match
to find someone equal to you in some way.
Martina finally met her match on the tennis court today and lost, three sets to two.
idiommeet your matchto be defeated or have difficulty in a competition, sport etc that you normally win easily, because your new opponent is as strong, clever, or skilful as you are:After dazzling performances in the early stages of the tournament, the young player has finally met his match.My grandmother was accustomed to dominating every conversation. But she had met her match in Julia.

meet (one's) match

To encounter one's equal or superior in ability, skill, etc., especially in a competitive setting. Stevenson used to be the dominant player on the tour, but it looks like she has finally met her match in the young newcomer. A lot of kids who are used to being the smartest student in school are a little shell-shocked when they meet their match in college.

meet your match

COMMON If you meet your match, you find that you are competing or fighting with someone who is as good as you or is better than you. The United manager, Alex Ferguson, admitted that his team had met their match in Chelsea. The boxer's bruised and bloodied face showed he had met his match in Lewis.

meet your match

encounter your equal in strength or ability.

find/meet your ˈmatch (in somebody)

meet somebody who is as good at doing something as you are, and perhaps better: He thought he could beat anyone, but he’s finally found his match.As a saleswoman, she’s met her match in Lorna.

meet one's match, to

To encounter a person who is one’s equal in ability. This term began life as to find one’s match, a locution that dates back to the fourteenth century or earlier. “He fond his mecche,” wrote Robert Manning of Brunnea (The Story of England, ca. 1330). By the late sixteenth century the alliterative meet had been substituted and has survived to the present day.
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