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Took down the rope

The act of removing a societal standard of achievement and related shame of failing to reach a standard. (past tense)
In reference to the rope in school gymnasiums which were historically climbed as part of physical education, but were removed in '90's as part of a societal trend and are no longer included in standard curricula. Defined by Adam Carolla.
Q: France used to be excellent, what the hell happened?
A: Took down the rope.

San Francisco took down the rope by implementing a program to cut checks to homeless people.
Took down the rope by bossk21 September 11, 2009

Tookdown 

When a member of a group or affiliate gets arrested and gets sentenced to 25 years or life.
Juan: Aye mane you heard about the homie Brandon, heard his ass got tookdown.

Tyrell: YEah nigga, they took his ass in fo' that murder, shi' crazy nigga.
Tookdown by Finch njkjm November 27, 2023