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bringdown
noun
an event or person that discourages or depresses you US, 1939- “You’ll have to go home, son,” the doc said. “You’ve got a slight murmur in your heart.” That was a bringdown. — Milton Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 19, 1946
- If you come right to the point, they say you are a “bring down.” — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 31, 1953
- And that coming right after a big bug-sized bringdown from the Nazi’s put on him. — William Lord Buckley, Hip Einie, 1955
- We sophisticate our tases in order to tap dance by hassles and shove the poignancy of “bring downs” into impersonal shadows. — Berkeley Barb, p. 6, 18 November 1966
- Now you say, “Well the world of reality is a bringdown, man. There’s police brutality and there is all this stuff.” — The San Francisco Oracle, 1967
- To be honest, there is an element of the bring-down about the whole affair and I was feeling a bit melancholy about it all that morning[.] — The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog, p. 111, 1971
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