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Cut down to size

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 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. 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."

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