set down
set down {v.}
1. To write; record.
He set down all his important thoughts in his dairy.
At the beginning of his letter Dan set down the date.
Syn.: PUT DOWN.
2. To stop a bus or other vehicle and let (someone) get off.
The bus driver set her down at the corner.
3. To put into some group; classify; consider.
When he heard the man speak, he set him down as a fool.
4. To explain; think a reason for.
The teacher set down the boy's poor English to his foreign birth.
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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
