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Discover Ludwig"take someone down" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It means to cause someone to fall, be defeated, or be removed from a position of power or influence. Example 1: The football team's star player was injured during the game and had to be taken down by the medical team. Example 2: The CEO's unethical actions were finally exposed, leading to his prompt removal from the company and taking him down from his prestigious position. Example 3: The protesters were determined to take down the corrupt government and bring about change in their country. Example 4: The boxer delivered a powerful punch that took down his opponent and won him the match.
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"You don't take someone down at that level of status unless they've done something really egregious," said Mr. Moses, who works in Beijing.
"His management style is always to be in your face, raising questions, playing for the advantage and to take someone down".
"This can take someone down in an instant.
Instead of being used to take someone down, the guns were used to build up.
"Never would have occurred to me it could take someone down like that," he said.
Being able to take someone down and relieve them of their weapon is a valuable skill when things get tight, but it still doesn't make up for good planning, smarts, and speed.
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Flanking is a great idea and taking someone down from the sides where they don't expect it is great fun and very effective.
Instead of taking someone down with Spine Crack, you're taking them down with a joke.
The website does a fantastic job taking someone down the memory lane of how Abarth got started, talking about the vision by Carlo Abarth in 1949.
Where it used to take someone throwing down $14.99 for a CD to count as an album sale, now 1500 streams of a song from an album will do the trick.
With this journey into the heart of rubbish, this full-throttle adventure into the hyper-space of drivel, Travolta not only incinerates what is left of his own reputation, but takes someone else down with him: Forest Whitaker, making a prat of himself as Terl's sidekick.
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