slap down
(tr, adverb) informal to rebuke sharply, as for impertinence
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How to use slap down in a sentence
To fix the problem, it will never be enough to simply slap down the guy caught cheating, no matter how despicable he might be.
Is HGH, Allegedly Alex Rodriguez’s Drug of Choice, Really So Bad? | Kent Sepkowitz | August 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen the salt starts to pop (from the water trapped in the salt crystal), slap down your burger, dimple side up.
Obama would have never dared send them out to publicly slap down McChrystal, as both Gates and Jones have done.
We walked slap down to the hotel—then it was near the bank—and called for drinks.
Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf BoldrewoodAn' then you slap down a card they've all overlooked an' larf in the other chap's face?
A Man to His Mate | J. Allan Dunn
I'm in government service; and if them picket-halters was gone, slap down goes a dollar apiece.
The Old Santa Fe Trail | Henry Inman
Other Idioms and Phrases with slap down
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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