cut down to size
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cut down to size
verb cuts down to size · cutting down to size · cut down to size
- To humble or humiliate, especially someone or something that is perceived as overly domineering or too proud. The war was seen by the Foreign Office as a golden opportunity to undo the UN Partition Resolution and cut Israel down to size'.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, down, size. There is, however, another general approach to cutting the potential client population down to size: establish criteria, grounded in the Bank's basic strategy, that restrict the range of enterprises that the Bank tries to reach.
