take down

take down idiom
  1. Bring from a higher position to a lower one, as in After the sale they took down all the signs. [c. 1300]
  2. Take apart, dismantle, as in They took down the scaffolding. [Mid-1500s]
  3. Humble or humiliate; see take down a notch.
  4. Record in writing, as in Please take down all these price quotations. [Early 1700s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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