turn thumbs down

1. 1.

   vote against

   “The faculty turned thumbs down on the candidate for the Dean position”

   Synonymsvote down

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Questions about turn thumbs down

What does turn thumbs down mean?

turn thumbs down means "vote against".

What is another word for turn thumbs down?

Close synonyms include vote down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is turn thumbs down a common word?

turn thumbs down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.