Teach you a lesson.
It means to deflate your ego, to humble you in front of your peers.
To be cut down to size is to be humbled.
Someone did something to jeopardize your standing. Other variables-took the ground away beneath your feet, cut you down to size, etc. etc.
Literally it means to cut something until it falls down, like a tree, so figuratively it means to "fell" someone, usually with a sarcastic or "cutting" remark.
Yes, "cut the cheese" is an idiom that is commonly used as slang for passing gas or farting in informal language.
Cut; to cut down
cut it
"Cutting" a deal just means making one. You're compromising, or making an agreement. "Cut" is used in the sense of stamping out or creating.
Specifically in the Amazon in a year a forest the size of New Jersey gets cut down.
Crush your ego. Deflate your self-opinion. Synonymous phrases include: "Put You In Your Place"
The idiom "can't cut the mustard" means not being able to handle difficult situations.It means whatever it is is not sufficient, that more is required."Can't cut the mustard" means something doesn't meet standard expectations.
Nothing. The phrase you want is "get down to brass tacks," which is an upholstery term. You tack the cloth and stuffing to the furniture frame with brass tacks, so if you are down to the tacks, you have nothing covering the frame. This idiom means that you cut through all the talk and go straight to the meat of the matter.
Nothing. The phrase you want is "get down to brass tacks," which is an upholstery term. You tack the cloth and stuffing to the furniture frame with brass tacks, so if you are down to the tacks, you have nothing covering the frame. This idiom means that you cut through all the talk and go straight to the meat of the matter.