damer le pion

French

Etymology

Literally, “to queen the pawn”, from the game of chess (or checkers).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /da.me lə pjɔ̃/

Verb

damer le pion

  1. (figurative) to trounce, to dominate
    • 2025 June, Benoît Bréville, “Tous influenceurs !”, in Le Monde diplomatique, →ISSN, page 21:
      […] HugoDécrypte surpasse largement Le Monde, et MrBeast, le plus grand influenceur de la planète (396 millions d'abonnés sur YouTube), dame le pion à Netflix. De quoi faire des envieux.
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