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slap down

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verb

  1. informal (tr, adverb) to rebuke sharply, as for impertinence

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slap down Idioms  

  1. Restrain or correct emphatically, as in They thought he was getting far too arrogant and needed to be slapped down. This idiom, which literally means “inflict a physical blow,” began to be used figuratively in the first half of the 1900s.

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