down to the ground

Idioms  

1. Thoroughly, completely, as in This new job suits him down to the ground. [Colloquial; second half of 1800s]

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Example Sentences

Taking a person down to the ground and restraining them there can be an appropriate way to get them in handcuffs, said Seth Stoughton, a former police officer turned law professor who also works at the University of South Carolina.

From Salon

"It suits him down to the ground."

From BBC

The trees bent down to the ground.

From Literature

“Drop down to the ground. Take cover underneath a sturdy object like a table. And hold on until all the shaking has stopped,” Wendy Bohon, branch chief of seismic hazards and earthquake engineering at the California Geological Survey, said in a recent social media video.

From Los Angeles Times

She sat on a broken block from the debris of her destroyed house with her red gown, or jilbab, draped over her head down to the ground.

From BBC