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Phrase(s): render something down
1. Lit. to cook the fat out of something. • Polly rendered the chicken fat down to a bit of golden grease that she would use in cooking a special dish. • Jane rendered down the fat for use later. • The cook rendered it down. 2. Fig. to reduce or simplify something to its essentials. • Let’s render this problem down to the considerations that are important to us. • Can’t we render down this matter into its essentials? • Not all of this is important. Let’s render it down.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs