📚 verb • entry_id 61720
take down a notch
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bajarle los humos
To cause a person's or group's self-esteem or importance to be decreased.
Confident and near-cocky for the second straight debate […] [McCain] easily deflected Romney and Giuliani attempts to take him down a notch.
Yet it is Gervais who has always been considered […] a quasi-"man of the people" who dares to take the elites down a notch.
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