cry down

cry down

1. To deride or mistreat someone or something. If you want to keep your friends, don't cry down to people just because you're rich and famous now.
2. To overshadow or silence someone or something by making more noise than that person or thing. The dictator vowed to cry down the protests.
See also: cry, down
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cry down

v.
To belittle or disparage someone or something: The rowdy children cried down anyone who attempted to quiet them. The opposition cried us down at every opportunity.
See also: cry, down
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • laugh at
  • laugh at (someone or something)
  • keep telling yourself that
  • far cry, a
  • take (something) out on (someone or something)
  • take it out on
  • take it out on (someone or something)
  • take it out on somebody
  • take it out on someone/something
  • take out on
References in periodicals archive
"I missed them so much I used to cry down the telephone.
Football: HIGNETT ON HIGH; It's a tough road but Craig's flying again
You may also have also heard the same battle cry down the years from Catholic residents of Portadown in Northern Ireland, who hate the annual flaunting of power by the Loyalist Orange Order as they march past their homes from Drumcree church.
Days of appeasement are finally over in Ulster
I ring one of my sisters or my mum and we have a good cry down the phone.
Do young drug-takers know what it's like to see your little sister on a mortuary slab?; By EMILY BETTS