Meet One's Waterloo Definition

verb

To be decisively defeat by an encounter with a powerful opponent or a problem that is too difficult .

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Origin of Meet One's Waterloo

A reference to Napoleon Bonaparte 's defeat by armies of Britain and Prussia at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, which marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars . Waterloo is a municipality south of Brussels in what is now the province of Walloon Brabant , Belgium .

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