Meaning of strike someone when they are down | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of kick someone when they are down (“make things worse for someone in a difficult position”).

idiomatic

Examples

“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.”

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