hasty rutting , 'to cut someone down to size'

 Written by David Scarpa, the movie tracks Napoleon’s relentless rise to despotic power — he crowns himself emperor — amid political intrigues, bloody battlefields and some occasional hasty rutting with Joséphine, who invariably cuts him down to size. 

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/rʌt/

verb

gerund or present participle: rutting; adjective: rutting

1. (of a deer or other mammal) engage in the rut or annual period of sexual activity.

   "researchers say the deer are rutting earlier"

phrase [VERB inflects] If someone is cut down to size, something happens to make them realize that they are not as important as they think they are. [informal]

Definition of

'to cut someone down to size

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