keep (someone) down

1. to make someone discouraged.

The loss of his job has really kept him down.

2. to not advance someone.

Why would someone so capable be kept down by his superiors?

• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
• Beauty is only skin deep.
• beauty of
• beauty of something
• beauty sleep
• be a waste of space
• be a weight off mind
• be a weight off shoulders
• be a weight off your mind
• be a weight off your shoulders
• be a writer in the making
• be backed into a corner
• be back in harness
• be back on the rails
• be backward in coming forward
• be bad news
• be bag
• be banging head against a brick wall
• be banging your head against a brick wall
• be bang on
• be barking mad
• be barking up the wrong tree
• be batting a thousand
• be batting on a sticky wicket
• be baying for blood