dropping the mic

Verb

drop the mic (third-person singular simple present drops the mic, present participle dropping the mic, simple past and past participle dropped the mic)

1. (idiomatic, slang) To do or say something decisive, meaningful, or impressive.
   • In their past work, both Whedon and Goddard have shown an inclination to embrace tropes so tightly that you're forced to question them – and with Cabin, as one journalist in the room suggests, 'There's kind of a sense of this movie dropping the mic [on the genre] and walking away like, 'There it is...2012 June 11, Steph Harmon, “Meta Is Better”, in Brag, number 466, page 26