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meet one's Waterloo
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A reference to Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat by armies of Britain and Prussia at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, which marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Waterloo is a municipality south of Brussels in what is now the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium.
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meet one's Waterloo (三人称単数 現在形 meets one's Waterloo, 現在分詞 meeting one's Waterloo, 過去形および過去分詞形 met one's Waterloo)
- To be decisively defeated by an encounter with a powerful opponent or a problem that is too difficult.
- 1864 April 7, “The Dove of the Regiment. An Incident of the Battle of Chickamauga.”, in Frank Moore, editor, The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, etc., volume VII, New York, N.Y.: D[avid] Van Nostrand, […], OCLC 79355077, page 91, column 1:
- 2010, Nelson Chang; Laurence Chang; with Song Luxia, “Zhang Congyu, a Master Appraiser of Chinese Paintings”, in The Zhangs from Nanxun: A One Hundred and Fifty Year Chronicle of a Chinese Family, Denver, Colo.: CF Press, →ISBN, part 4 (Later Generations of the South Branch), pages 370–371:
- [...] Zhang's diary is peppered with entries recording his nightly losses at the card table: "I lose two thousand taels," "I lose five hundred taels," or "I am defeated" are typical jottings. One entry from 1938 summed up his card playing: "At night, [I went] to Zhou Wenrui's for gambling, meeting my Waterloo."
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meet one's waterloo
to meet with a disaster at sea―be shipwrecked
to meet with one's approbation
to meet with one's approbation
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