drag down
English
Verb
drag down (third-person singular simple present drags down, present participle dragging down, simple past and past participle dragged down)
- (transitive) to cause (other people or another person) to suffer the same fate.
- 2008, Shane Sartor, Spiritual Profits 2nd Edition:
- I feel bad for him, but at the same time I cannot let him drag me down into his depths of negativity.