meet one's Waterloo

Etymology
A reference to ’s defeat by armies of Britain and Prussia at the on 18 June 1815, which marked the end of the. Waterloo is a municipality south of Brussels in what is now the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium.

Verb

 * 1) To be decisively defeated by an encounter with a powerful opponent or a problem that is too difficult.

Translations

 * French: rencontrer son Waterloo
 * German: sein Waterloo erleben, sein Stalingrad erleben
 * Serbo-Croatian: doživjeti svoj Waterloo, doživeti svoj Waterloo
 * Spanish: a todo cerdo le llega su san Martín
 * Vietnamese: phơi áo