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slapping down

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Present participle of slap down

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There's no innovation in slapping down a credit card.

The prime minister will not regain that by slapping down his more popular rival.

"It's my beer money," the man said, shrugging before slapping down 98 cents.

Men slapping down backgammon chips in tea houses are talking about it.

Slapping down too much information at once? Are you explaining when you could be showing?

Sheridan was followed off by Cole, given a yellow for slapping down a pass, and Wilkinson added the three points.

Then, perhaps realizing that slapping down your mom on network television isn't a great idea, he added, "And, no, no.

Then that long second ended and the fish was beyond me, slapping down through the surface and disappearing.

People are irrepressible toolmakers, slapping down grid systems and trumping up towers, and braking for nothing but the occasional Starbucks.

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For all the usual pieties its development ministers offer up, many anti-corruption campaigners remember the very public slapping-down of the Serious Fraud Office on national-security grounds by Tony Blair in 2006.

And fresh from his latest slapping-down by Theresa May, he will spend today – International Human Rights Day – not raising these concerns openly and forcibly with our Saudi allies, but preparing to fly out to Riyadh and clarify his remarks.

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