brought down to earth

It might have raised a lot of interest, but some of the more than 100 buyers were brought down to earth with a bump.

It’s always fun to play a character that thinks the world worships them and they think that they’re just the greatest thing since sliced bread, and then watching that person slowly unravel and fall on their face and be humiliated and kind of brought down to earth.

The spectacle that is Vaudreuil is humanized — brought down to earth.

After winning the Women's Ballon d'Or for the second consecutive year on Monday, Spain midfielder Alexia Putellas was quickly brought down to earth with questions about the fallout which has left her national team in disarray.

For all the celebrity status accorded astronauts in the early years of spaceflight, Mr. McDivitt had figuratively been brought down to earth by his own children.