strike someone when they are down

Meaning: (idiomatic)Synonym ofkick someone when they are down(“make things worse for someone in a difficult position”).[from 17th c.]1665,John Sergeant,Sure Footing in Christianity, or rational discourses on the rule of faith‎[1]:but he was already so doubly overthrown by two Learned Opposers, that it seem'd unhandsome and ignoble tostrike a man when he was down; his Circumstances making him rather an Object of Pity than Victory.

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