kick a dog when it's down
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kick a dog when it's down
verb kicks a dog when it's down · kicking a dog when it's down · kicked a dog when it was down
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To make things worse for someone in an adverse situation.
but we learned for the first time last Monday night that the Atalantas would kick a dog when he's down. We were beaten ten pins; of course the At-A-lantas (as Spark puts it) will claim one hundred and ten, but the hundred were felled by Miller jumping on the alleys.
Similar: kick someone when they are down
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