pedestal

Definitions

From Italian piedestallo, 'foot of a stall/stand' (pie = foot, from Latin pes). A pedestal is literally the foot a statue stands on. Hence the idiom 'put someone on a pedestal' — to raise them to an admired, elevated position.

Common Collocations

• 1.put someone on a pedestal把某人捧上神坛
• 2.marble pedestal大理石底座
• 3.stone pedestal石质基座
• 4.knock off the pedestal拉下神坛

Example Sentences

• 1.

  The bronze bust rested on a marble pedestal.

• 2.

  She tends to put her mentors on a pedestal.