meet your Waterloo

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meet your Waterloo — idiom

1. to be finally and completely beaten by a stronger person, group, or by a difficu

1.idiom
Definition

to be finally and completely beaten by a stronger person, group, or by a difficulty that you cannot overcome, especially when you had been winning or succeeding up to that point

Example

The undefeated boxing champion met his Waterloo when the younger fighter knocked him out in the third round.

Élise had never failed a maths exam before, but she met her Waterloo with the university entrance test.