Meaning of kick a dog when it's down | Babel Free

Definitions

To make things worse for someone in an adverse situation.

idiomatic

Examples

“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.”

“I don't like to kick a dog when he's down, and Earns has had a heap of trouble with his father's death and all”

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