Example sentences of "[pron] down to size " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I was to praise the girls in the post office , being Irish they would have to cut them down to size , ’ Moran argued . |
| 2 | Girls can be praised for paying boys back in their own currency , for cutting them down to size , or for challenging the male domination of the music business . |
| 3 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 4 | Such ruthless honesty certainly cuts me down to size , ’ he said idly . |
| 5 | Well my other car is a nineteen twenty nine V six Bentley , which will do a hundred mile an hour , so if I drive them alternately it cuts me down to size . |
| 6 | I believe in the tall poppy syndrome that if you grow up too tall there will always be people ready to cut you down to size . |
| 7 | When the time came , he would cut him down to size . |
| 8 | Was this his way of cutting her down to size ? |
| 9 | They sucked it and licked it down to size . |
| 10 | If they have n't got it well He said if , I can always cut it down to size and that . |