dragging down

Verb

drag down (third-person singular simple present drags down, present participle dragging down, simple past and past participle dragged down)

1. (transitive) To cause (other people or another person) to suffer the same fate, or to feel the same negative mood.
   • I feel bad for him, but at the same time I cannot let him drag me down into his depths of negativity.2008, Shane Sartor, Spiritual Profits 2nd Edition
2. (transitive) To earn, as in wages from a job.
   • You're dragging down 50k these days, right?
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drag, down.