cut down to size

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To humble or humiliate, especially someone or something that is perceived as overly domineering or too proud. idiomatic,informal
    — The war was seen by the Foreign Office as a golden opportunity to undo the UN Partition Resolution and cut Israel down to size'.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, down, size.
    — There is, however, another general approach to cutting the potential client population down to size: establish criteria, grounded in the Bank's basic strategy, that restrict the range of enterprises that the Bank tries to reach.

词形变化

cuts down to size present,singular,third-person cutting down to size participle,present cut down to size participle,past cut down to size past
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