put in the shade

put in the shade (third-person singular simple present puts in the shade, present participle putting in the shade, simple past and past participle put in the shade)

1. (informal, transitive, figuratively) To outshine, to eclipse, to overshadow, to be better than.

• throw shade

• “put in the shade”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “put in the shade”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “put someone something in the shade” (US) / “put someone something in the shade” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “put leave sb in the shade”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “put somebody something in the shade” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.