| vote down | |
verb | |
| 1. | thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal" [syn: kill] |
| 2. | vote against; "The faculty turned thumbs down on the candidate for the Dean position" [syn: turn thumbs down] |
vote down
Defeat a candidate or measure, as in The new amendment was voted down by a narrow margin. This idiom was first recorded in 1642.