trample down

trample down

To flatten and crush someone or something by walking or running on top of them or it. The bulls trampled several tourists down as they stampeded through the city. Make sure the kids don't trample down my flowers.
See also: down, trample
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

trample someone or something down

to crush down someone or something with the feet. Stay out of crowds at rock concerts. Those kids will trample you down if they get excited. The cows trampled down the stalks of corn.
See also: down, trample
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • crush down
  • trample
  • trample (someone or something) to (something)
  • trample to
  • crunch down
  • have a crush on (someone)
  • envisage
  • envisage (someone or something) as (something)
  • envisage as
  • get a crush on (someone)
References in periodicals archive
This is To Trample Down an Arable Land, 2009, by Russian artist Victor Alimpiev, which was recently exhibited at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, as well as in this year's Moscow Biennial, but was conceived in this "split" format specifically for its presentation in Verona.
They also trample down the bracken, providing food and habitat for song birds.
Alan hopes the programme will encourage youngsters to do more than just trample down the flowerbeds in the garden and help their parents a bit more now that summer is here.
And though Elliott knows he could now be a marked man, the 'Young Elephants' will have their work cut out to trample down his enthusiasm when the sides face each other in match two tomorrow evening.
Above all, was it necessary to trample down and manipulate the emerging nations of the Third World in maintaining that balance?
"Daesh" can mean "to trample down and crush" or "a bigot who imposes his view on others," making the term a highly offensive one to the group, the(https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/10/09/words-matter-isis-war-use-daesh/V85GYEuasEEJgrUun0dMUP/story.html) Boston Globe reported .
He stated government is poised to trample down its parliament like the elephants of Poris.
At one crossing point, protesters tried to trample down the barbed wire, only to be driven back by guards with bayonets.
Ikon Gallery, Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham: To Trample Down An Arable Land - films and videos by Russian artist Victor Alimpiev.
4 Painting in spite of everything I Thomas Bayrle--no friend of the proliferation of pointless German painting--recently explained to me his take on a group of painters who take failure as their starting point: "They didn't trample down this broad path of painting right away; instead, these were people who were really already very close to failure, and suddenly they can nonetheless paint.
Cattle, he says, increase the insect population at the first level of the wildlife food chain and trample down the bracken, providing food and habitat for the song birds.
Trample down the ground to keep the roots in place.
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