| 释义 |
cut something down to sizeReduce the size or power of something, for example an organization, which is regarded as having become too large or powerful: the government clearly plans to cut councils down to size...- The roots of France's secularism lie in the struggle against the overweening power of the Catholic church: how to cut it down to size and assert the primacy - and neutrality - of the state.
- That means cutting the debt mountain down to size.
- The work of the Scottish parliament was always going to be a tough sell in screaming headlines, but the syllabically challenged tabloids did their best by promptly cutting this new institution down to size.
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