bring low
verb1
To embarrass or humiliate.
2
To kill.
- Then Beowulf too rallied. With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle. Thus did Beowulf bring him low!1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 46:
- Related terms
- cut down to size, lower one's sights, put someone in their place