put in the shade

put in the shade

1. (informal, transitive, figuratively) To outshine; to be better than.

• “put%20(someone%20or%20something)%20in%20the%20shade” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
• “put in the shade” in the Collins English Dictionary, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers.
• “put someone something in the shade” (US) / “put someone something in the shade” (UK) in Macmillan Dictionary
• “put leave sb in the shade” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “put somebody something in the shade” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English