down to the ground

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

Example Sentences

“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.

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Our nation’s deportation Leviathan is so imperious that an ICE agent, face contorted with anger, outside a New York immigration court recently shoved an Ecuadorian woman pleading for her husband down to the ground, stood over her and wagged his finger in front of her bawling children even as cameras recorded the terrible scene.

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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.

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"De Ridder is going to be looking to pressure me and take me down to the ground and make me uncomfortable," said Whittaker.

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So I said, 'OK, I'll just beat him down to the ground.'

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