Take down a ___ (humiliate)

Usage examples of peg.

Will pegged as physically being able to visit those other realms, he had a hard time accepting their existence and his ability to travel to them.

Twitching his dusty cloak back, he showed Alec the wooden peg strapped to the stump of his left leg.

On each cane shaft, tied behind the iron arrowhead, was a tuft of unravelled hemp rope that had been soaked in pitch, which spluttered and then burned fiercely when touched with the slow-match, The archers loosed their arrows, which sailed up in a high, flaming parabola and dropped down to peg into the timbers of an anchored vessel.

The only things that pegged him as an aged retiree were his work-gnarled, leathery, slightly arthritic, somehow ancient hands .

Peg, Doris, Pelly and Avis since you left here 15 hours and 34 minutes ago, and there is a trace of Eva behind the fold of the corona.

Saddle and saddle blanket went over the sides of the stall, bitless bridle was hung on a peg at the front, and then he picked up his packs and left Kalira to her meal.

It had helped that Peg had stayed out of my biz until after I put Andi on the jet to Boston that morning.

The blockader that fired that shot must have got a sight at the steamer, and she is still pegging away at her.

Then he hooked his hat on a wood peg and combed his hair in an oxidized mirror, lit an unfiltered cigarette, and sat down at a table by himself while a mulatto woman brought him a shot of whiskey and a beer on the side and a length of white boudin in a saucer.

She sidled along the Cinder Town fences like any little wench returning after a breathless adventure, and nearly collided with poor Coode who was leaning over his front gate and hanging his melancholy on the pegs of the stars.

I let the propulsion wedge me firmly into a niche, then wriggled about until my right wrist was in contact with a rough coralline peg.

I should say that in marking the points at cribbage on the board he always moved her pegs for her as well as his own, for she could not handle them or set them in the holes.

Luck was with her, and she was able to pick up what she needed without having to speak with anyone except Peg Drucker at the register, who got so rattled she double-scanned the grape jelly, and Cubby Bowmar, who caught up with her while Peg was bagging and revealed a gaping hole where his right canine tooth had once been.

Peg and I both are well, you would have two eager cunnies to contemplate.

Of course, most cunnies show some such resemblance, but Peg is secretly proud of hers.