laid low

And the expressive Garfield can convey water-eyed empathy so deftly that you know Tobias would be laid low if Almut so much as stubbed her toe on the leg of a coffee table.

It was a poetic ending for the man who named his company after a 19th-century sonnet about arrogance, hubris and pride laid low.

Some might say that Jackson, laid low by disease, “can’t walk like he used to and talk like he used to,” Sharpton said.

It is interesting to note that she was laid low after appearing before Congress.

The end of 2023 is beginning to look like the end of the first act of a Greek tragedy, but with the world being laid low, and not just a romantic hero.