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take down
verb
to arrest and convict someone US- He says he’s gonna take him down if it’s the last thing he does. — Jackie Brown, 1997
- The soldiers from the Empire broke his ribs and crushed his hands when they took him down[.] — Suroosh Alvi et al., The Vice Guide, p. 175, 2002
▶ take someone down a peg
to reduce a person’s self-esteem; to force a brash or bumptious person to conform UK- That’s taken friend O’Mally down a peg or two I fancy. — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 89, 1959
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