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stare down
Idioms and Phrases
Cause someone to waver or give in by or as if by being stared at. For example, Insisting on a better room, he stared down the manager until he got it . This expression alludes to staring at someone without being the first to blink or lower one's gaze. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
They blocked off central Budapest's Margaret Bridge while staring down a police cordon.
Hornung took him to the same place that had refused Hawkins service, stared down the owner, and they sat down as their pizza was served.
Manchester City, in 24th, and Paris St-Germain, in 26th, are staring down that very real possibility.
It warned 40% of councils would be "staring down bankruptcy" next year, when a scheme allowing local authorities to keep those deficits off their financial books expires.
But the closing of her beloved revue is coming at the worst possible moment for Shelly as she stares down the end of her fifties.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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