shoot down *

She was the very best we had, and they shot her down.

He tried to put up a fight, but they shot him down.

It is still not clear which of them shot him down.

You'd be shot down before you even made it to California.

Any other man in my place would have gone to his house and shot him down like a dog.

And more often than not, they shot down his ideas.

They'd shot him down only a few miles from his Standing.

Could he just as easily have been the one who shot down a friend?

And he had shot one of them down at the pool area.

I've been shot down a couple of times, but I always made it out somehow.