Alternative form of jump down someone's throat

(idiomatic) To reject or refuse someone in a way that avoids causing hurt or disappointment.

(accounting) A planned income statement laid out in the reverse of the usual order, i.e. starting with the "bottom line" and continuing with the figures the business must achieve in order to meet it.

plural of upside-down income statement

(idiomatic, informal) Alternative form of knock someone over with a feather.

Inclined to be polite to one's superiors and abusive to one's subordinates.

(idiomatic) To put a stop to, suppress; to reject.

(colloquial) A situation of infinite regress; a circular explanation or model.

present participle of knock one down with a feather (alternative form of knocking one over with a feather).

(transitive with for) (literary) To give one's life (for), to die (for).