kick a dog when it's down

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Meaning: (idiomatic)To make things worse for someone in anadversesituation.1891,The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review‎[1], volume 6:but we learned for the first time last Monday night that the Atalantas wouldkick a dog when he's down. We were beaten ten pins; of course the At-A-lantas (as Spark puts it) will claim one hundred and ten, but the hundred were felled by Miller jumping on the alleys.1919, Jewell Bothwell Tull, “The Phantom Lion of Goodrich Creek”, inSouth Dakota Educator‎[2], volume33:I don't like tokick a dog when he's down, and Earns has had a heap of trouble with his father's death and all

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