man down
/ˈmæn ˌdaʊn/ verb- To lose courage or cause to lose courage.
- To reduce in manpower.
- To train (a raptor or other type of bird) to become accustomed to the presence of people; to man.
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They got this man down here at a time when everything was still and yet no one was asleep.
A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know.
“It is clear enough that the hound has been laid on from some article of Sir Henry’s—the boot which was abstracted in the hotel, in all probability—and so ran this man down.
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