wipe the floor with someone

Verb

wipe the floor with someone (third-person singular simple present wipes the floor with someone, present participle wiping the floor with someone, simple past and past participle wiped the floor with someone)

1. (idiomatic, slang) To be well ahead of someone, or to win a competition by a considerable margin over someone.
   • The young newcomer is wiping the floor with the more experienced players.
   • A superb passer of the ball, we expected him to wipe the floor with the opposition.1991, Rex Mossop, The Moose That Roared, Sydney: Ironbark Press, page 157

   Synonyms:

   mop the floor with someone, sweep the floor with someone

2. (idiomatic, slang) To comprehensively beat someone in a fight.
   • "Courage? Blast it all, lad, if I were twenty years younger I'd wipe the floor with you now."1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter I, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, page 6