(transitive, informal, figuratively) to meet one's match, to find one's better (to find someone who is even better (at something) than oneself, to be dealing with someone stronger than oneself)

(figuratively) to find what one was looking for, what one wanted, something one likes

(informal) to have had enough, to have had it

(figuratively) to keep one's cards close to one's chest

to bide one's time

to catch one's breath, to get one's breath back

to enter, to make one's entrance, to make an entrance

to hold one's breath

to take flight, to fly off / to take off, to soar up, to flourish, to blossom

to take a run-up