drag down
verb1
To cause (other people or another person) to suffer the same fate, or to feel the same negative mood.
- I feel bad for him, but at the same time I cannot let him drag me down into his depths of negativity.2008, Shane Sartor, Spiritual Profits 2nd Edition:
2
To earn, as in wages from a job.
- You're dragging down 50k these days, right?
3
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drag, down.