to take down a notch or two
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- Fuente de la expresión
- The Free Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- to take somebody down a notch or two
- Variantes
- to [bring, knock, take] down a [notch, peg] [or two]
- Definición
- To criticise: to publicly report the errors or faults of someone.
- Contexto
- As Marco Rubio has emerged as the smart-money favorite (or at least co-favorite, along with Ted Cruz) for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, there has been a nagging suspicion in enemy camps and the mainstream media that the Florida senator history of sloppy personal finances could be used by a rival with bad intent to take him down a notch or two.
- Tipo de fuente
- newspaper
- Autor
- Ed Kilgore
- Título de la fuente
- Marco Rubio Messy Financial History May Be His Downfall Yet
- Año
- 2015
- Web
- http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/12/rubios-messy-finances-may-be-his-downfall-yet.html
- Observaciones
- It is not so frequent with the sense of criticising.
The dictionary states that it can also be said “to take down a notch” without “or two”, although we could not find any example. - Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Raro