kick a dog when it's down

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make things worse for someone in an adverse situation. idiomatic
    — but we learned for the first time last Monday night that the Atalantas would kick a dog when he's down. We were beaten ten pins; of course the At-A-lantas (as Spark puts it) will claim one hundred and ten, but the hundred were felled by Miller jumping on the alleys.

词形变化

kicks a dog when it's down present,singular,third-person kicking a dog when it's down participle,present kicked a dog when it was down participle,past kicked a dog when it was down past
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