This guy needed to come down a peg and I knew how to do it.

Too many people would have to come down a peg or two, and they're the ones who write the rules.

People have come down a peg, not so selfish."

In the current market, where many apartments, especially the overpriced ones, have already come down a peg or two in price, brokers say that sellers are feeling squeezed by these bottom fishers.

"He's run for President twice," said Chuck Haytaian, chairman of the state Republican Committee, "so maybe running for the Senate would be coming down a peg for him."

Now, I.B.M. has come down a peg or two, squeezing $6.5 billion out of its cost structure in the last three years alone and cutting staff by half in the last decade.

And within the last few weeks, he said, they have been noticing that prices, especially those for the newish condominium towers, which are easier to calculate since the prices are based primarily on square footage - have come down a peg.

And if Hooch was going to make the profit he expected to on this trip, he'd have to make sure Governor Bill came down a peg or two, so they could deal as equals instead of dealing as a tradesman and a governor.