"meet one's match" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meets one's match",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meeting one's match",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "met one's match",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "met one's match",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "meet<,,met> one's match"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After a long streak of victories, the tennis player may have met his match on Monday.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be opposed by someone of comparable strength and ability to oneself; to be defeated by such an opponent."
      ],
      "id": "en-meet_one's_match-en-verb-pC8Qcppt",
      "links": [
        [
          "oppose",
          "oppose"
        ],
        [
          "comparable",
          "comparable"
        ],
        [
          "strength",
          "strength"
        ],
        [
          "ability",
          "ability"
        ],
        [
          "defeat",
          "defeat"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "be opposed by someone of comparable strength",
          "word": "trouver son maître"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "be opposed by someone of comparable strength",
          "word": "emberére akad"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "be opposed by someone of comparable strength",
          "word": "trovare pane per i propri denti"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "be opposed by someone of comparable strength",
          "word": "encontrar la horma de su zapato"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meet one's match"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meets one's match",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meeting one's match",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "met one's match",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "met one's match",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "meet<,,met> one's match"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After a long streak of victories, the tennis player may have met his match on Monday.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be opposed by someone of comparable strength and ability to oneself; to be defeated by such an opponent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "oppose",
          "oppose"
        ],
        [
          "comparable",
          "comparable"
        ],
        [
          "strength",
          "strength"
        ],
        [
          "ability",
          "ability"
        ],
        [
          "defeat",
          "defeat"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "be opposed by someone of comparable strength",
      "word": "trouver son maître"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "be opposed by someone of comparable strength",
      "word": "emberére akad"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "be opposed by someone of comparable strength",
      "word": "trovare pane per i propri denti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "be opposed by someone of comparable strength",
      "word": "encontrar la horma de su zapato"
    }
  ],
  "word": "meet one's match"
}