cast down

Related to cast down: cast aside

cast down

1. To throw something to the ground. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "cast" and "down." When she heard us mocking her, she cast down her book and stormed out of the room.
2. To lower something (typically one's gaze). Because my son is so shy, he usually casts down his eyes whenever he meets someone.
See also: cast, down
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cast something down

to hurl or throw something down. She cast the glass down, breaking it into a thousand pieces. She cast down the tray and all that was on it.
See also: cast, down
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

cast down

1. Throw down, hurl to the ground, as in She cast down her coat on the grass. [Late 1400s]
2. Bend down, lower, as in He cast down his eyes. [Late 1300s]
See also: cast, down
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • cast up
  • cast off
  • cast back
  • cast about
  • cast about for (something)
  • cast around
  • cast as
  • cast (one) as (something)
  • cast a glance
  • cast aside
References in periodicals archive
Would be mages are put through trials at age 16 and failure results in being cast down from the clan which brings family shame and a life in servitude.
De Castell, Sebastien: Spellslinger
The Financial Center stands a blearied sentry, its million-seeming window-eyes cast down to the floodlit court on Chambers, to teenaged boys dribbling a basketball-- rhythm rising, voices rising into the filmy hour.
TriBeCa 1993
Nick Viall widdled "The Bachelor" cast down to two on Monday.
Will Vanessa Win 'The Bachelor' 2017?
Well known as a co-founder of Against The Grain Theatre, a company noted for its off-beat approach to opera production in unlikely spaces, he presided this spring over a largely traditional Carmen (albeit moved forward in time to Generalissimo Franco's Spain), done in opera-comique style with spoken dialogue, its major visual innovation being to parade part of the cast down the aisles at the beginning of Act IV (the second in this two-act version) as bullfight vendors and participants.
Canadian Opera Company
He walked over to the counter and slammed his cast down, shattering it.
Quote to note
Whereupon the stars cast down their blacked out husks, so the
The Residual Site
" So posited Satan after he was cast down into the lake of fire in Milton's Paradise Lost, a work that still has the power to shock, please and annoy in equal measure.
colloonclassics
He cast down the gauntlet to the entire rifle building community to raise the bar on a rifle design that was older than John himself.
John Noveske Passes
Do you look them in the eye or stammer and stutter with eyes cast down?
What we have here: a failure to communicate
For pounds 5 it fixed a leak in cast down pipe that was just too expensive and awkward to fix right now.
DIY Donny
It shows five airmen looking to the sky for aircraft that may never return and two with eyes cast down, reflecting on the ordeal they have just endured.
67 years on.. heroes of the skies are honoured; MEMORIAL TO BOMBER COMMAND UNVEILED
Chavez, a lanky man with thick dark hair and glasses, sat motionless before the hearing, his back straight, his head level, and his eyes cast down toward the floor.
Judge rules suspect fit to stand trial in Eugene murder case
It's just a shame the script and direction ultimately let the cast down.
Drama/Musical/Romance
But the moment a royal marriage is announced, we cast down our swords and vitriol-loaded pens and go all soppy.
Royalty in name
Modern slashers mainly focus on stomach-churning gore, contriving elaborate methods to cut the cast down to size.
Review: The Collector