peg down
Example Sentences
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Or you could plant biomats that peg down to the soil and are pre-seeded with stabilizing plants.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2022
He has both the advantage and disadvantage of being a libertarian, which makes him hard to peg down on a traditional left-right spectrum.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2015
Thereby Capitol was able to boost record production again, peg down its position as the No. 4 U.S. record company.
From Time Magazine Archive
In seven days, they sieved 81,881 workers through a series of questions designed to peg down their postwar plans, the first such big worker-by-worker poll in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Take him a peg down" was the ordinary saying, and the words have become a proverb amongst ourselves.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel
