get someone down—
1. (also: bring someone to the ground) cause a person to come down or fall:
- You get the biggest man down, and I’ll fight the other two.
2. make a person feel depressed:
- I spend most of my working time indoors, but even so this wet weather is getting me down.
take someone down—
1. (also: take someone down a peg ) make smb. feel less important; humiliate a person:
- He seems to experience satisfaction in what he calls taking me down.
2. write down smb.’s words:
- I enlisted a poet for company, and a stenographer to “take him down.”
See also: bring someone down / bring someone down a peg.