knock somebody off their pedestal/perchto stop admiring someone that you previously thought was perfect 使某人不再受崇拜,使某人威信扫地 The press were determined to knock the princess off the pedestal that they had put her on. 新闻界决心把被他们捧上天去的王妃拉下来。
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