Idiom: take someone down

Meaning

Idiom: take someone down (take down someone)

— Whenever we take down a dictator either another one appears afterwards or there’s chaos.

— The board of directors is trying to take down the CEO of the company.

— What you did was incredible. If was if you fought Goliath and took him down.

— One of our best agents took the shooter down.

— If they try to take me down I will make sure everyone goes down with me.

— This training will enable us to better understand how to take down an active shooter in a crowded public arena.

— He is always anxious because his enemies are always plotting to take him down.

— As soon as I was promoted, I knew my former boss was going to try to take me down or get me to leave the company.

— Unfortunately, we have to use legal means to take the president down.

— I think our chairman decided resignation was a better scenario than having the board publicly take her down.

— We took the terrorist down after just 20 minutes but by that point he had killed more than 22 people.