strike someone when they are down
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strike someone when they are down
verb strikes someone when they are down · striking someone when they are down · struck someone when they were down
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Synonym of kick someone when they are down (“make things worse for someone in a difficult position”).
but he was already so doubly overthrown by two Learned Opposers, that it seem'd unhandsome and ignoble to strike a man when he was down; his Circumstances making him rather an Object of Pity than Victory.
Similar: kick someone when they are down, hit someone when they are down
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