Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 95. The verb phrase today is to
mow down or to mow somebody down. All right. We got two meanings. Let's look at the
first one. If you mow someone down, you kill one or
more people by shooting a lot of bullets at them. You might see this in some
movies. Maybe some soldiers or maybe some gangsters with a machine gun shooting at
a lot of people and they shoot down several people all at once. That's to mow
someone down. All right. Let's look at the second one. To kill or seriously injure
someone by hitting them with a vehicle that is moving very fast. Okay. You can
see this in the movies too a lot. Let's look at the first example. They mowed down
that group with a machine gun. Yeah. So again whether it's you know,
soldiers or terrorists or somebody That's what it means that they shot and
they shot a lot of people down all at the same time. All right. Let's look at
number two. That whistleblower was mowed down by a hit-and-run driver. All right.
Yeah. yeah. Maybe sometimes . maybe some group, some company or maybe some
government agency. Maybe they want to get rid of this whistleblower. So this might
be a way of trying to kill him and make it look like an accident.
So the whistleblower was mowed down by a hit-and-run driver. Hit and run driver
when somebody just runs, runs over somebody and they don't stop. They just keep
going. That's a hit-and-run driver . so if a driver hit someone and they don't stop
they don't try to stop for an ambulance. They just keep going. That's hit-and-run.
Okay. Let's look at the last one. That driver had a heart attack at the wheel
and mowed down several pedestrians . Yeah. All of these are terrible. Unfortunately
but that's what we mean. We do hear this. You can mow down people in this way.
So both of the car and both by like shooting people. Anyway I hope it's clear.
I hope you got it. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.