draw down
v. phr.— «I guess if you live the life of a gunslinger, well, you always watch your back. You never know who might be drawin’ down on you.» —“The good and bad of being there” by Kevin Boland in Minneapolis, Minn. Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) July 9, 1983. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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