down on

Idioms  

1. Hostile or negative toward, ill-disposed to. For example, All the reviewers were down on this play, or Ever since he was injured, he's been down on skiing. [Mid-1800s] Also see down on one's luck.

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Example Sentences

She is keen to cut down on the family's screen time as her children Romi, four, and Marlo, one, grow up surrounded by technology.

From BBC

I thought about this, and then I had to lie down on a park bench.

From The Wall Street Journal

He wrote on Substack last month that social media "has become something that is quietly harming our children" and he wants "crack down on the addictive elements… the never ending scrolling, that keeps are children hooked on their screens for hours, and stop kids getting around age limits."

From BBC

“We’re doubling down on the VR developer ecosystem while shifting the focus of Worlds to be almost exclusively mobile,” Samantha Ryan, VP of Content at Meta Reality Labs, wrote in a blog post External link in February.

From Barron's

Therefore, it said, new legislation - passed by Germany in December to crack down on people smuggling to UK - did not apply in this case.

From BBC

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