"meet one's match" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: meets one's match [present, singular, third-person], meeting one's match [participle, present], met one's match [participle, past], met one's match [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|meet<,,met> one's match}} 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. Translations (be opposed by someone of comparable strength): trouver son maître (French), emberére akad (Hungarian), trovare pane per i propri denti (Italian), encontrar la horma de su zapato (Spanish)
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