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knock someone off their pedestal idiom to show people that someone is not as perfect as they seem to be: 使(某人)威信扫地 This recent scandal has really knocked the president off his pedestal.最近的丑闻确实把总统从神圣的宝座上打落下来。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Humiliating and degrading abase abasement be under a cloudidiom bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom bruise someone's egoidiom disgraced dishonour dishonourable dishonourably doghouse ignoble ignobly ignominious ignominiously ignominy shoddily shoddiness shoddy stoop stoop to something
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