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wipe the floor with someone
beat someone very easily
If you wipe the floor with someone, you defeat them very easily in a competition or argument.
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Sarah wiped the floor with me - I couldn't answer her last question.
Our local team wiped the floor with the visitors in the final.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: My brother wipes the floor over me at chess.
Say: My brother wipes the floor with me at chess.
The idiom takes "with" before the person who is defeated.
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How it fits in a sentence.
wipe the floor with someone; wiped the floor with someone
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Our local team wiped the floor with the visitors in the final.
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wipe the floor with someone
beat someone very easily
“Our local team wiped the floor with the visitors in the final.”
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