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bring down
verb- to depress someone, to deflate someone US, 1935
- What brings you down in a tale like that is not that it’s phony but that it’s so ture. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 88, 1946
- “Don’t let us down.” “Or bring us down.” — Chandler Brossard, Who Walks in Darkness, p. 74, 1952
- What really brought him down was the way Danny Atlas, owner of the Broadway novelty shop called Fun, Inc., gave him the big slough-off. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 5, 1954
- The Hare Krishna boys got up and chanted, bringing most everyone down from the super-high place we had been. — East Village Other, 20 August 1969
- Don’t let it bring you down, it’s only castles burning. — Neil Young, Don’t Let It Bring You Down, 1970
- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 39, 1971
- All those news reports, and the bullshit they’re dragging up now. It’s bringing me down. — Airheads, 1994
- That even seeing you in that chair can’t bring me down! — South Park, 1999
- to help ease someone’s return from a difficult drug experience US
- bring down: help someone come out of a bad drug experience. — Ethel Romm, The Open Conspiracy, p. 242, 1970
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