man down | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Tolosecourageor cause to lose courage.1901,New Zealand House of Representatives,Parliamentary Debates, volume116, Wellington: Government Printer,→OCLC, page171, column 2:Ministers and a good many of their supporters worked in relays, and had somanned downthe feeble and numerically small Opposition till we had not strength nor mental energy enough to resist.1924,George Allan England,The White Wilderness: A Story of the Great Newfoundland Seal-hunt, of Artic Floes, of Perils and Adventures Manifold, London; New York, N.Y.:Cassell and Co.,→OCLC, page160:A famous champion, he; super-expert in the art of "manning down" his opponent, and sometimes in the heat of battle glowing with such an ardour of excitement that he would make wide jumps, quite against every rule, and sweep off pieces wholesale.2013, Alexei Auld,Tonto Canto Pocahontas,[United States]: TemRose Publishing,→ISBN:Normally, I'd psych myself out of approaching her. I looked at her, trying to find something that reinforced mymanning down.; (transitive)Toreduceinmanpower.2011, Denise A. Bates,House of Bull: Book Three, Bloomington, Ind.:AuthorHouse,→ISBN,page392:These men have gotten word that the fort we left, Ridgeway, ismanning down. So we have no worries about that.; (transitive,chieflyfalconry)Totrain(araptoror other type ofbird) tobecomeaccustomedto thepresenceofpeople; toman.1995,Main Conference Proceedings: Annual Conference & Expo, August 28 – September 2, 1995, Orlando, Fla.: Association of Avian Veterinarians,→OCLC, page176:Eyassesbegin a transition period in the late summer as their falconry training begins. This critical period involvesmanning downthe raptor, slowly lowering the body weight, and controlled flight training.2014, Ben Crane,Sparrowhawks: A Falconer's Guide, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire: The Crowood Press,→ISBN:When taken directly from the chamber, initially Mrs Woods [asparrowhawk] showed a high level of fear but whenmanned down, she went on to show no aggression whatsoever.

Examples:

EN: Send a man down.
ES: Envía a un hombre".
EN: Hey, there's a man down...
ES: - Hay un hombre...
EN: You can't keep a good man down. You bet.
ES: A los grandes nunca los detienen, ya sabes.
EN: Miss Joan, there's a man down here wants you for his grandmother.
ES: Srta. Joan, un hombre quiere verla de parte de su abuela.
EN: Any girl that will turn a man down just because he ain't rich enough...
ES: Cualquier chica que deja a un hombre solo porque no es lo bastante rico...
EN: We're looking for a man down here and they've got a woman to meet the train.
ES: Estábamos buscando a un hombre y mandan a una mujer a esperar el tren.
EN: We follow this man down to a roadhouse.
ES: Lo seguimos hasta una hostería.
EN: Follow that man down the street!
ES: ¡Sigue a ese hombre!
EN: You could have been a hoofer or a counter man down at the beanery, or a guy out of work.
ES: Podrías haber sido bailarín... o dependiente en una tasca o un parado.
EN: Cutting the hanged man down from the gallows, where he swung in the wind.
ES: Bajan al ahorcado del patíbulo, que danzaba movido por el viento.
EN: A dozen for the coat of the last man down!
ES: Una docena para el último que baje!
EN: - Who brought that man down?
ES: - ¿Quién bajó a ese hombre?
EN: Lads... No one can say old Dugmore ever let a white man down. I'll get natives to go.
ES: Chicos, que nadie diga que el viejo Dugmore no puede conseguir lo que quiera.
EN: You're not the sort to let any man down, ever.
ES: No eres del tipo que defraudaría a ningún hombre. Nunca.
EN: How pitiful to see a man down on his luck.
ES: Qué triste es ver a un hombre perder toda su fortuna.

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