It’s an idiom that comes from shooting something in the sky (like a bird or a plane) so that it falls down to the ground. Usually with a gun or a bow or similar weapon. “He shot down that plane!”
To shoot down an idea is like to discredit it. To show that it is not true (by metaphorically blasting the idea out of the sky and making it crash into the earth).
“to shoot down a release date”. Why is English so hard.
It’s an idiom that comes from shooting something in the sky (like a bird or a plane) so that it falls down to the ground. Usually with a gun or a bow or similar weapon. “He shot down that plane!”
To shoot down an idea is like to discredit it. To show that it is not true (by metaphorically blasting the idea out of the sky and making it crash into the earth).