Meaning of knock someone off their perch | Babel Free

Definitions

To defeat or overcome someone who was in a dominant position.

idiomatic

Examples

“Tiger Woods has been knocked off his perch as the No1 player in the world after Vijay Singh beat him in the Deutsche Bank Open last night.”

“He was the third qualifier of the day and posted a 4-lap, 10-mile qualifying average of 227.566 miles an hour on the two-and-a-half-mile oval, then had to wait through nearly six hours while other drivers tried to knock him off his perch.”

“"It would be nice to knock the Germans off their perch, with them winning the last European Championship and the World Cup."”

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