meet one's match

English

Verb

meet one's match (third-person singular simple present meets one's match, present participle meeting one's match, simple past and past participle met one's match)

1. To be opposed by someone of comparable strength and ability to oneself; to be defeated by such an opponent.

   After a long streak of victories, the tennis player may have met his match on Monday.

Translations

be opposed by someone of comparable strength

• French: trouver son maître (fr)
• Hungarian: emberére akad
• Italian: trovare pane per i propri denti
• Spanish: encontrar la horma de su zapato (es)

Further reading

• “meet one's match”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “meet one's match”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “meet one's match”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “meet your match”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “meet your match”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “meet your match” (US) / “meet your match” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.