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meet one's match
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Idioms and Phrases
Encounter someone equal in ability to oneself, as in The chess champion was about to meet his match in a computer . This expression originated about 1300 as find one's match , but the alliterative meet was being used by the mid-1500s and has survived.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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