kick when down



kick somebody when they're down

to do something bad to someone when you know they already have a lot of problems His wife left him last month and I don't want to kick a man when he's down, but we simply don't have any more work for him.
See also: down, kick

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Shifra-Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Osee-Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Ehud-Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Mladenka-Croatian, Serbian
Gentius-Albanian
Sung-Soosung-sooKorean