Brewer's: Down-trod

Despised, as one trodden under foot.

I will lift The down-trod Mortimer as high i' the air As this ungrateful king.

Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., i. 3.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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