Idiom: keep someone down
Meaning
Idiom: keep someone down
- to discourage someone or prevent them from doing something
Example sentences
— No one can keep you down if you are determined to do something.
— Sadly, it's common that when people start to lose weight, some of their closest friends and family will try to keep them down by giving them sweets and fatty foods.
— When I started dating someone my roommate tried to keep me down because she was jealous.
— Don't less these losses keep you down. Keep working on your fitness and mindset and you'll start winning matches again.
— I can't wait to leave this small down. Everyone wants to keep me down since they're not achieving anything themselves.
— Most people's limiting beliefs keep them down.
— Before I got a nose job my looks were keeping me down in my modeling career.
— Your criticism cannot keep me down. I'm going to be a pop singer one day.
— If Thomas Edison had let failure keep him down, we'd never have the lightbulb. He had hundreds, if not thousands, of failed experiments.
— Nothing anyone says will keep my son down. He's going to qualify for the Olympics.
Synonyms
- stand between
- stand in someone's path/way
- spoil someone's chances
- come between
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