slap down


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

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How to use slap down in a sentence

  • I'm in government service; and if them picket-halters was gone, slap down goes a dollar apiece.

Other Idioms and Phrases with slap down

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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