live down

And it’s less common now for you to just knock on somebody’s door and say, “Hey, I live down the street. How are you?”

Harris was intrigued enough to watch War of the Worlds, and it duly lived down to his expectations.

So far, the Kennedy regime at HHS has lived down to the worst expectations of his critics.

“I would probably just try to live down and away and keep him in the park,” Scout A said.

It took Dole years to live down his image as a political hatchet man.