meet Waterloo

meet Waterloo
meet (your) Waterloo if someone who has been successful in the past meets their Waterloo, they are defeated by someone who is too strong for them or by a problem which is too difficult for them.

She finally met her Waterloo when she tried to take on the club champion.


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