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Phrase(s): take someone down (to size)
Go to cut someone down (to size)., Phrase(s): take something down
1. to take some large or complicated things apart. • They plan to take all these buildings down and turn the land into a park. • Do they plan to take down the television broadcasting tower? 2. to write something down in something. • Please take these figures down in your notebook. • Take down these figures in your record of this meeting., Phrase(s): take someone or something down
to move someone or something to a lower position or level. • The boss is downstairs and wants to meet our visitor. Will you take her down? • The way down to the lobby is confusing. Let me take down our visitor. • Let me take the sandwiches down.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Bring from a higher position to a lower one, as in After the sale they took down all the signs. [c. 1300] 2. Take apart, dismantle, as in They took down the scaffolding. [Mid-1500s] 3. Humble or humiliate; see TAKE DOWN A NOTCH. 4. Record in writing, as in Please take down all these price quotations. [Early 1700s]
American Heritage Idioms