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tear down
tear down {v.}
1. Разваливать на части; разрушать.
The workmen tore down the old house and built a new house in its place.
2. Разбирать по частям или деталям.
The mechanics had to tear down the engine, and fix it, and put it together again.
3. Говорить гадости, плохо отзываться о ком-л.; критиковать.
"Why do you always tear people down? Why don't you try to say nice things about them?"
Dorothy doesn't like Sandra, and at the class meeting she tore down every idea Sandra suggested.
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Источник: A Dictionary of American Idioms
