Taken Down A Peg   Remember how in arms and politics, We still have worsted all your holy tricks; Trepanned all your party with intrigue, And took (!) your grandees down a peg. To take a person down a peg means to inflict a mild humiliation. It has occasionally the significance of openly reprimanding and deliberately vexing a braggart or upstart. Pegs have played an important part .in human economy, and...