mow down (someone/something)

to violently cause someone or something to fall.

The car skidded along the side of the road and mowed down several mailboxes before coming to a stop.

A young woman was mowed down in a public market by narcotics traffickers.

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of mow down (= to cut grasses or grains that fall over as they are cut)

• the death knell
• the demon drink
• the devil finds work for idle hands.
• the devil take the hindmost
• the dice are loaded against
• the dice are loaded against someone
• the die is cast
• the dog days
• the done thing
• the dreaded lurgy
• the dust settles
• the early bird catches the worm.
• the earth moved
• the ebb and flow
• the ebb and flow of
• the ebb and flow of something
• the end justifies the means.
• the end of the line
• the end of the road
• the eye of the storm
• the factory floor
• the facts of life
• the fag-end of
• the fag-end of something
• the fairer sex