knock the props out from under someone
- knock the props out from under someone
knock the props out from under someone
Fig. to destroy someone's emotional, financial, or moral underpinnings; to destroy someone's confidence. •
When you told Sally that she was due to be fired, you really knocked the props out from under her.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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