shoot down | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive)To cause tofallbyshooting.The carnival game involvedshooting downtin cans.My grandfathershot downseveral fighter planes in the war.2022November 10,Ava Max,Melanie Fontana, Michel Schulz,Ryan Tedder,Madison Love,Cirkut, “Weapons”, inDiamonds & Dancefloors‎[1], performed by Ava Max:Stop using your words as weapons / They're never gonnashootmedown/ Stop, it's time that you learned a lesson / My love is gonna drown you out2023February 12, Daniel E. Slotnik, Amelia Nierenberg, “Your Monday Briefing: U.S. Destroys U.F.O.s”, inThe New York Times‎[2],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon13 February 2023, Briefing:In China, authorities said they might soonshoot downan unidentified flying object over waters near the northern city of Rizhao, The South China Morning Post reported.; (transitive,idiomatic)Tocriticize(a request) to the point ofpreclusion.Every proposal I made wasshot downat once.

Examples:

EN: - Did you shoot down any Boche?
ES: - ¿Derribaste a algún alemán?
EN: She won't tell you why she took that long ride in the middle of the night with a gun in her hand to shoot down a man in cold blood. But isn't it clear to you? Her motive was jealousy.
ES: No les dirá por qué salió en mitad de la noche con un arma y disparó a un hombre a sangre fría, pero ¿no ven claro que su móvil fueron los celos?
EN: We don't shoot down observers when they get in your way in parachutes.
ES: Es solamente que eso de dispararle a un observador en paracaidas no se hace.
EN: And I might tell you .. the first time you shoot down a man .. Don't let it get to you.
ES: Lo importante es que la primera vez que abatais a un hombre, no os impresione.
EN: Is this the man you saw shoot down McTavish and Col. Cobb?
ES: ¿Es el hombre al que vio disparar contra McTavish y el coronel Cobb?
EN: There's hardly an inch between them as they shoot down the stretch.
ES: No hay ni 3 centímetros entre ellos cuando se lanzan al último trecho.
EN: It's not our duty to shoot down unarmed men.
ES: No es nuestra tarea matar hombres desarmados.
EN: They can shoot down on us from there.
ES: Nos pueden disparar desde ahí.
EN: He saw Tim shoot down two mes and then get a burst himself.
ES: Vio a Tim derribar a dos enemigos, y recibir fuego.
EN: It is shoot down...
ES: -Lo han volado.
EN: Ever shoot those electric guns that shoot down the airplanes.
ES: Es un horror. - ¿Has usado armas antiaereas?
EN: You mean to shoot down unarmed men?
ES: ¿Vas a matar a hombres no armados?
EN: It don't stand to reason that a man that shot down a dozen fellows in battle... Would shoot down his own brother without givin' him a chance.
ES: No es normal que un hombre que ha matado en la guerra dispare a su hermano sin darle una oportunidad.
EN: You mean to say, you'd shoot down unarmed prisoners?
ES: ¿Dispararía contra prisioneros desarmados?
EN: What kind of an animal are you, letting them shoot down an unarmed man? Kill or be killed.
ES: ¿Qué clase de animal es Ud. dejando que acribillen a un hombre desarmado?

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