Crush the leaves down so you can put more into the basket.
•Crush down the leaves and fill the basket higher.
2. Fig. to suppress someone or something. •The dictator crushed the opposition down ruthlessly.
•He crushed down all political opposition.
•The army crushed the peasants down ruthlessly.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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