put/leave sb in the shade
to be so good that another person or thing does not seem important or worth very much:
Although I thought I'd done well, my sister's exam results put mine in the shade.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Surpassing in quality or number
- beat
- catch
- catch up
- compare
- crown
- eclipse
- exceed
- go one better idiom
- leave sb standing idiom
- north
- outperform
- outran
- outrun
- outsell
- outshine
- outstrip
- tower above/over sth
- transcend
- upstage
- writ large idiom
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