do someone dirt

(informal)harm someone's reputation maliciously

(非正式)惡意中傷

drag the name of someone (或 something) through the

(informal)give someone or something a bad reputation through bad behaviour or damaging revelations

(非正式)（通過不好的行為或誹謗）玷污（某人或某物的名譽(yù)）

he condemned players for dragging the name of football through the dirt.

他譴責(zé)這些球員玷污了足球運(yùn)動(dòng)。

eat dirt

(informal)suffer insults or humiliation

(非正式)忍辱含垢，忍氣吞聲

the film bombed at the box office and the critics made it eat dirt.

這部電影票房慘敗，批評(píng)家們對(duì)它極盡羞辱之能事。