draw down

draw down
 v. phr.— «Over and over you hear the same thing….”They just drawin’ down on people”, meaning they are pulling their guns.» —“Katrina: a cameraman’s journal in NOLA” by Xeni Jardin in New Orleans Boing Boing Sept. 13, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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