turn down

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turn down someone/something

to refuse to accept or agree to something, or to someone's idea. The bank turned down their request for a loan. Go ahead and ask her out, if you're prepared for her to turn you down.

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Why, it would have been play to turn down that young husky's. Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context Put on your bonnet and let on you're going home; and when you get to the corner, give the rest of 'em the slip, and turn down through the lane and come back. Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context Then D'Artagnan rushed out of his hiding place and arrived in time to see Bazin turn down the Rue de la Juiverie and enter, in the Rue de la Calandre, a respectable looking house; and this D'Artagnan felt no doubt was the habitation of the worthy beadle. Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context More results

References in classic literature

Why, it would have been play to turn down that young husky's.

Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context

Put on your bonnet and let on you're going home; and when you get to the corner, give the rest of 'em the slip, and turn down through the lane and come back.

Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context

Then D'Artagnan rushed out of his hiding place and arrived in time to see Bazin turn down the Rue de la Juiverie and enter, in the Rue de la Calandre, a respectable looking house; and this D'Artagnan felt no doubt was the habitation of the worthy beadle.

Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

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