"knock down to size" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knocks down to size",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocking down to size",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocked down to size",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocked down to size",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "knock down to size (third-person singular simple present knocks down to size, present participle knocking down to size, simple past and past participle knocked down to size)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "cut down to size"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Shannon McKenna, Out Of Control",
          "text": "“Watch it with the delirious power trips, pal,” she warned him. “Keep it up, and I'll have to knock you back down to size.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jerry Dennis, It's Raining Frogs and Fishes",
          "text": "The world is untamed and untameable. Wind, rain, and lightning knock us down to size.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Jimmy R. Watson, Big Jesus: A Pastor’s Struggle with Christology, page 49",
          "text": "My experience as a minister for twenty-five years has informed me that most people have inherited from their faith tradition a gigantic Jesus of epic proportions. I am almost hesitant to knock him down to size, and if I thought he truly was coming back as a 5'1\" man with unlimited powers, I would probably keep my mouth shut.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of cut down to size"
      ],
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          "cut down to size#English"
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  ],
  "word": "knock down to size"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knocks down to size",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocking down to size",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocked down to size",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocked down to size",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "knock down to size (third-person singular simple present knocks down to size, present participle knocking down to size, simple past and past participle knocked down to size)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "cut down to size"
        }
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Shannon McKenna, Out Of Control",
          "text": "“Watch it with the delirious power trips, pal,” she warned him. “Keep it up, and I'll have to knock you back down to size.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jerry Dennis, It's Raining Frogs and Fishes",
          "text": "The world is untamed and untameable. Wind, rain, and lightning knock us down to size.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Jimmy R. Watson, Big Jesus: A Pastor’s Struggle with Christology, page 49",
          "text": "My experience as a minister for twenty-five years has informed me that most people have inherited from their faith tradition a gigantic Jesus of epic proportions. I am almost hesitant to knock him down to size, and if I thought he truly was coming back as a 5'1\" man with unlimited powers, I would probably keep my mouth shut.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of cut down to size"
      ],
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}