man down
Verb
Meaning
(transitive, idiomatic) To lose courage or cause to lose courage.
(transitive) To reduce in manpower.
(transitive, chiefly falconry) To train (a raptor or other type of bird) to become accustomed to the presence of people; to man.
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Examples
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
Thus woman trusts in man down all the years and so, as always, is betrayed.
I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
Rich man down and poor man up- they are still not even.