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Phrase(s): hose someone or something down
to wash something down with water from a hose. • Hose her down to cool her off and maybe she will do the same for you. • Please hose down the driveway. • Hose it down., Phrase(s): hose someone down
Sl. to kill someone. (Underworld. From the image of spraying someone with bullets.) • Mr. Big told Sam to hose Wilbur down. • The thugs tried to hose down the witness.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs