to reduce a sergeant to the ranks

Jones will play MacPhee in the tiebreaking game today for fourth.

Using team dislocation to their advantage, Immaculata players did not remember gymless years as a problem. Instead, they regarded the lack of facilities as part of team tradition...

The term belly-timber, meaning food, … actually originated in the early seventeenth century as a commonplace, everyday term, although within fifty years it came to be seen as a ludicrous and affected compound; accordingly, after the mid seventeenth century, belly-timber was used only ironically, meaning that you could say it only while wiggling in the air two fingers of each hand. In Old English, the word timber originally meant house, having developed from an Indo-European source that meant to build. By the tenth century timber had come to mean building material, which was the sense from which belly-timber developed, food being the building-material of the human body.