"Curbstomping" is a pretty terrible way to take people down. I've seen men do the real version. I was a sailor, so how about "blow them out of the water". [He grins a little.]

There are a lot of things we say back home that there is not the same in English for.

[There is not the same in English for that, Niko. But as he is kind of a sucker for making depressed girls happy and he has too much time on his hands with no ideas on escaping just yet, he's happy to give it a go.]