cut sb down to size
to show someone that they are not as clever or important as they think they are:
Someone should cut that man down to size!

[TahlilGaran] Advanced Learner's Dictionary ▲

cut down to size
cut (someone) down to size
to criticize someone who you think is too confident in order to make them feel less confident or less proud.
When he started he thought he knew everything, but we soon cut him down to size.

cut (someone/something) down to size
to make someone or something less important or detailed.
When he started the job he thought he knew everything, but we soon cut him down to size.

Sometimes we have to cut our grand dreams down to size.

cut (someone/something) down to size
to make someone or something less important or detailed.
When he started the job he thought he knew everything, but we soon cut him down to size.

Sometimes we have to cut our grand dreams down to size.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

cut something down to size
cut (someone/something) down to size
to make someone or something less important or detailed.
When he started the job he thought he knew everything, but we soon cut him down to size.

Sometimes we have to cut our grand dreams down to size.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

cut down to size
to prove that someone is not as good as he or she thinks
I cut my colleague down to size when I criticized what he had said at the meeting.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

cut down to size
v. phr., informal To prove that someone is not as good as he thinks.
The big boy told John he could beat him, but John was a good boxer and soon cut him down to size.
Synonym: PUT IN ONE'S PLACE.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

cut someone down to size
cut (someone) down to size
to criticize someone who you think is too confident in order to make them feel less confident or less proud.
When he started he thought he knew everything, but we soon cut him down to size.

cut (someone/something) down to size
to make someone or something less important or detailed.
When he started the job he thought he knew everything, but we soon cut him down to size.

Sometimes we have to cut our grand dreams down to size.

cut (someone/something) down to size
to make someone or something less important or detailed.
When he started the job he thought he knew everything, but we soon cut him down to size.

Sometimes we have to cut our grand dreams down to size.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

cut someone down to size
to prove that someone is not as good as he or she thinks
I cut my colleague down to size when I criticized what he had said at the meeting.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲