down to size

1. see cut down, def. 3.

Example Sentences

One way it is doing that: cutting its Medicare business down to size.

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Can anything fill the void once those injunctions are shrunken down to size?

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Though the deals appear gargantuan, experts say financial realities will cut them down to size.

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“My mother would just cut me and my sister down to size, ya know? And that’s a very unstable feeling, to have your mother suddenly tell you that you stink, you should use deodorant.”

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In Hollywood’s ongoing cheerless attempts to contest the joy of music by cutting stellar classical musicians down to size, “Maria” joins the curt parade of “Tár” and “Maestro.”

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