kick down

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kick down

To force something to open, fall down, or break apart with a kick. A noun or pronoun can be used between "kick" and "down." The firefighter had to kick the door down to get in and save the children from the burning house. He came over and kicked down his sister's stack of blocks. The scoundrel came by and kicked the ladder down from off the side of the house, stranding the poor laborer up on the roof.
See also: down, kick
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

kick something down

to break down something by kicking. I was afraid they were going to kick the door down. Don't kick down the door!
See also: down, kick
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • ask down
  • bear down
  • chow down
  • chow something down
  • clunk
  • clunk down
  • brush down
  • button down
  • bolt down
  • call down
References in periodicals archive
Emily Gibbons, aged 15, who goes to the Mount School, in York, suffered a slashed thigh, cuts and bruises, after she used all her strength to kick down the bungalow door.
One of the things we must be able to do is "kick down the door." It's the anti-access problem, if you will.
This is one can we simply cannot kick down the road JAN O'SULLIVAN dublin yesterday
The 'kick down' is part of the idea of artwork as asset or investment and inviting a revaluation of how the value of art is assessed.
Firefighters had to kick down a door to rescue a woman from her burning flat in the early hours of this morning.
Henry stepped up and, despite having missed his last penalty against Inter Milan, nonchalantly chipped his kick down the centre of the goal to seal victory.
FIREMEN had to kick down a bedroom door to rescue a woman from a fire at a house in Whitnash last night.
He said: "It was raining and the gear-box seemed to kick down as I went round the corner.
Our Aussie challenger on the left should've been disqualified with such a blatant kick Down Under.
Flint took an early lead with a kick down field and after catching Bangor in possession James Berisford was able to touch down and Damian Goss kicked the conversion.
He was believed to have tried to kick down the front door of the house before firing through the window.
But I've grown in confidence in the past couple of years and now I am the type who would kick down the manager's door to tell him I'm his best choice.
Her car tyres were slashed and someone tried to kick down her front door.
Fellow inmates had to smash windows and kick down doors to get them out.
They threatened to kick down the door unless Christie was removed from their community.