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English
Verb
meet one's match (third-person singular simple present meets one's match, present participle meeting one's match, simple past and past participle met one's match)
- To be opposed by someone of comparable strength and ability to oneself; to be defeated by such an opponent.
After a long streak of victories, the tennis player may have met his match on Monday.
Translations
be opposed by someone of comparable strength
Further reading
- “meet one's match”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “meet one's match”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “meet one's match”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “meet your match”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “meet your match”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “meet your match” (US) / “meet your match” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.