"kick someone when they are down" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kicks someone when they are down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicking someone when they are down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked someone when they were down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked someone when they were down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kick<> someone when they are<are,are,were> down"
      },
      "expansion": "kick someone when they are down (third-person singular simple present kicks someone when they are down, present participle kicking someone when they are down, simple past and past participle kicked someone when they were down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens: Simple Ways to Keep Your Cool in Stressful Times, page 114",
          "text": "They would never kick someone when they are down or give themselves an unfair advantage by cheating or stealing. The implications of this type of behavior are huge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make things worse for someone who is going through a difficult time."
      ],
      "id": "en-kick_someone_when_they_are_down-en-verb-4U2dnheR",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To make things worse for someone who is going through a difficult time."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "beat a dead horse"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kick a dog when it's down"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "luòjǐngxiàshí",
          "sense": "make things worse for someone",
          "word": "落井下石"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "make things worse for someone",
          "word": "lyödä lyötyä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "make things worse for someone",
          "word": "frapper un ennemi à terre"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "make things worse for someone",
          "word": "pugnalare un uomo morto"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "make things worse for someone",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "kopać leżącego"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "note": "бить лежа́чего (bitʹ ležáčevo, literally “to beat one who is lying (on the ground)”)",
          "sense": "make things worse for someone"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "make things worse for someone",
          "word": "hacer leña del árbol caído"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "make things worse for someone",
          "word": "sparka på någon som ligger"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-kick someone when they are down.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ab/En-au-kick_someone_when_they_are_down.ogg/En-au-kick_someone_when_they_are_down.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/En-au-kick_someone_when_they_are_down.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kick someone when they are down"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kicks someone when they are down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicking someone when they are down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked someone when they were down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked someone when they were down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kick<> someone when they are<are,are,were> down"
      },
      "expansion": "kick someone when they are down (third-person singular simple present kicks someone when they are down, present participle kicking someone when they are down, simple past and past participle kicked someone when they were down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "beat a dead horse"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens: Simple Ways to Keep Your Cool in Stressful Times, page 114",
          "text": "They would never kick someone when they are down or give themselves an unfair advantage by cheating or stealing. The implications of this type of behavior are huge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make things worse for someone who is going through a difficult time."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To make things worse for someone who is going through a difficult time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-kick someone when they are down.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ab/En-au-kick_someone_when_they_are_down.ogg/En-au-kick_someone_when_they_are_down.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/En-au-kick_someone_when_they_are_down.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "kick a dog when it's down"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "luòjǐngxiàshí",
      "sense": "make things worse for someone",
      "word": "落井下石"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "make things worse for someone",
      "word": "lyödä lyötyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "make things worse for someone",
      "word": "frapper un ennemi à terre"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "make things worse for someone",
      "word": "pugnalare un uomo morto"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "make things worse for someone",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "kopać leżącego"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "бить лежа́чего (bitʹ ležáčevo, literally “to beat one who is lying (on the ground)”)",
      "sense": "make things worse for someone"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "make things worse for someone",
      "word": "hacer leña del árbol caído"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "make things worse for someone",
      "word": "sparka på någon som ligger"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kick someone when they are down"
}