wipe the floor with someone
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[edit]wipe the floor with someone (third-person singular simple present wipes the floor with someone, present participle wiping the floor with someone, simple past and past participle wiped the floor with someone)
- (informal) To be well ahead of someone, or to win a competition by a considerable margin over someone.
- The young newcomer is wiping the floor with the more experienced players.
- 1991, Rex Mossop, The Moose That Roared, Sydney: Ironbark Press, page 157:
- A superb passer of the ball, we expected him to wipe the floor with the opposition.
- (informal) To comprehensively beat someone in a fight.
- 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter I, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, page 6:
- "Courage? Blast it all, lad, if I were twenty years younger I'd wipe the floor with you now."
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[edit]to win a competition by a considerable margin over the other competitors
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