Idiom Breakdown

wipe the floor with someone

SLANG

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Definition

To be well ahead of someone, or to win a competition by a considerable margin over someone.

To comprehensively beat someone in a fight.

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"The young newcomer is wiping the floor with the more experienced players."
"A superb passer of the ball, we expected him to wipe the floor with the opposition."
""Courage? Blast it all, lad, if I were twenty years younger I'd wipe the floor with you now.""

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