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get the better (of somebody – кому-либо Anglophile); put someone's nose out of joint (кому-либо Anglophile); show someone up (SigGolfer); knock flat on one's butt (Some of those demonstrators came to the base on Sunday, carrying Russian flags and cheering for the Russian forces. Among them were even a few retired officers of the Ukrainian military, including Viktor Davydenko, a colonel who served at the Perevalnoye base before retiring in 1995. The presence of these foreign troops doesn't bother me, he told TIME at the gates of the base where he once served Ukraine. They are doing their duty, preventing conflict and bloodshed in the Crimea. The Americans, said Davydenko, are just finishing up sowing chaos in Syria and have now turned their attention to the south of Ukraine. And wouldn't they just love to knock Russia flat on its butt on this land, he said. Sure they would. But is Russia supposed to stand back and let that happen? | TIME.com 4uzhoj); beat (linton); outperform (VLZ_58); transcend (Taras); ace; upstage (SigGolfer); wipe one's nose of |
| Игорь Миг |
outmaneuver; one-up; leave in the dust; make rings round; put to shame; give points to; surpass; get the better of; have the better of |
| fig.of.sp. |
mop the floor (with Yan); outshine (ART Vancouver) |
| idiom. |
rub it in someone's face (finita); show a middle finger (Himera); wipe someone's eye (кому-либо); have the better of (someone – кому-либо Bobrovska); score points off (someone); to deliberately make yourself appear superior to someone else by making clever remarks SirReal); put someone to shame (In this 1969 film, British gangsters are trying hard to put the Italian organized crime to shame. ART Vancouver) |
| inf. |
out alpha (Taras); be one up on (someone – кому-либо Anglophile) |
| Makarov. |
get the better of (someone – кому-либо); wipe someone's eye (кому-либо) |
| proverb |
get the better of (someone – кому-либо); knock somebody into a cocked hat (кому-либо); wipe somebody's eyes (кому-либо) |
| rude |
hand someone their ass (кому-л.; речь необязательно о физическом доминировании: [On the day after Victor got blamed by his sister:] "Victor, I need to tell you something, wait!" – "For what? So you can hand me my ass again?" Shabe) |
| slang |
wipe eyes (кому-либо); wipe someone's eye (кому-либо) |
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wipe nose |
| idiom. |
have somebody licked (не something, a somebody; ошибка Мультитрана grafleonov) |
| inf. |
get the better of (someone) |
