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单词 to be down for
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to be down for (a specified crime or amount of time)
14. colloquial. In or to prison. Usually in to be down for (a specified crime or amount of time).See also to go down 14 at go v. Phrasal verbs 1, to send down 4 at send v.1 Phrasal verbs, to take down 12 at take v. Phrasal verbs 1.
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1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 2 Aug. 2/5 She scorned to find surety in $500 to keep the peace, so she was sent down.
1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. iii. 111 They [sc. transported convicts] never meet again with that implicit trust which those who have never ‘been down’ have a right to expect.
1891 Rep. Commissioners appointed Prison & Reformatory Syst. Ont. App. E. 274 A man might be taken up for drunkenness to-day who may have been down for larceny on some further occasions.
1928 B. Cormack Racket ii. 95 I thought Enright was down for some bank job.
1977 E. Bunker Animal Factory i. 12 You'll look like Gina Lollobrigida to some of those animals who've been down for eight or nine years.
2002 J. Lerner You got Nothing Coming (2003) i. 13 Whatchu down for this time?
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to be down for (something)
30. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Eager, ready, willing. Usually in to be down for (something).Cf. to be up for (up adv.2 10e).
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1952 H. Ellson Golden Spike ii. 15 ‘Are you still down for it?’ ‘I'm down for it.’
1978 H. Selby Requiem for Dream 16 Lets go where theres some life. Whatta ya say? Hey baby, Im down.
1993 B. Cross It's not about Salary 266 Coalition-building? We're down for it.
2013 C. Lauren Beautiful Player 274 Even if she just wanted to curl up and sleep, I'd be completely down for that.
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