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come down on (like a ton of bricks)
vs
tear down
come down on (like a ton of bricks)
tear down
verb
To degrade (someone), to discredit or criticize
To demolish
How often have the words
come down on (like a ton of bricks)
and
tear down
occurred in a corpus of books?
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