Idioms
The language peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class
Idiom:
cut (someone) down to size
Meaning:
to prove that someone is not as good as he or she thinks
Example:
I cut my colleague down to size when I criticized what he said at the meeting.
List of common idioms, their meanings and examples of their usage in sentences
An idiom is defined as - a group of words in a fixed order that has a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own.