run-down
(stress on "run") In poor health or condition; weak or needing much work.
Grandma caught a cold because she was very run-down from loss of sleep.
The houses near the center of the city get more run-down every year.
scale down
To make smaller or less; decrease.
John scaled down each boy's share of food after a bear robbed the camp.
Tom built a scaled down model of the plane.
sell down the river
sell someone down the river
To give harmful information about someone or something to one's enemies; betray.
Дать информацию, которая может причинить ущерб, чьему-либо врагу; предавать.
The traitor sold his country down the river to the enemy army.
The criminal told the hiding place of his companions and sold them down the river.
The traitor sold his country down the river to the enemy army.
Предатель выдал секреты своей страны вражеской армии.
The company sold us down the river, lying to us about how well they were doing and then cutting the jobs when it suited them.
Компания нас предала, обманывая нас о своем состоянии и сокращая рабочие места, когда им вздумается.
set down
To write; record.
He set down all his important thoughts in his dairy.
At the beginning of his letter Dan set down the date.
To stop a bus or other vehicle and let (someone) get off.
The bus driver set her down at the corner.
To put into some group; classify; consider.
When he heard the man speak, he set him down as a fool.
To explain; think a reason for.
The teacher set down the boy's poor English to his foreign birth.
settle down
To live more quietly and sensibly; have a regular place to live and a regular job; stop acting wildly or carelessly, especially by growing up.
John will settle down after he gets a job and gets married.
To become quiet, calm, or comfortable.
Father settled down with the newspaper.
The house settled down for the night after the children were put to bed.
The teacher told the students to settle down and study the lesson.
shake down
To cause to fall by shaking.
He shook some pears down from the free.
To test, practice, get running smoothly (a ship or ship's crew).
The captain shook down his new ship on a voyage to the Mediterranean Sea.
To get money from by threats.
The gangsters shook the store owner down every month.
shakedown
A test.
Let's take the new car out and give it a shakedown.
An act of extorting money by threatening.
It was a nasty shakedown, to get $500 from the old man, promising to protect him.
shout down
To object loudly to; defeat by shouting.
Grace suggested that we give our club money to charity, but she was shouted down.
The crowd shouted down the Mayor's suggestions.