英语词汇“to be down to”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Phrases

P1.

down yonder adv. (a) down there; down at or to a particular place (now archaic and regional); (b) spec. (U.S.) in or into the States south of the Mason–Dixon line; = down South adv.

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1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe i. 3 Now if you bee kinde gentlemen, let vs sit downe yonder, vpon Pennylesse Bench.

1735 J. Ozell tr. L. J. C. S. d'Allainval L'embaras des Richesses: Plague of Riches ii. 113 A Lawyer named Briareus, who lives down yonder, leading to the Beggars-Hospital.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. i. 13 In the methodist chapel down yonder, where they are in the thick of a revival.

1922 H. Creamer & J. T. Layton ’Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (sheet music) 3 'Way down yonder in New Orleans In the land of dreamy scenes.

1944 D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive 133 A big Northern city where lines of color are not so pronounced as down yonder.

1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) i. 43 We can cross right down yonder off of that shoal.

2013 A. M. Howell Raised up down Yonder vi. 145 We're not all country..and you know talk like ‘down yonder’.

P2. to kick (also hit, etc.) a man when he is down and variants: to cause further harm or upset to someone who is already suffering or in a difficult situation. Frequently in negative contexts.

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1784 Monthly Rev. Aug. 145 Is it not somewhat ungenerous to insult the fallen, and to strike a man when he is down?

1830 Mechanics' Mag. 3 Apr. 78/1 Mr. Gilman acknowledges himself ashamed... Had he contented himself with only doing that, I should have been satisfied.., for..I would never kick a man when he is down.

1874 Locke's National Monthly Aug. 345/1 ‘Lish,’ he said reproachfully, ‘don't hit a feller when he's down.’

1912 Sunday at Home 1911–12 622/2 Trust them goodens to hit a gal when she's down.

1946 N. Coward Diary 22 Dec. (2000) 72 A subconscious urge on her part to kick me good and proud when I was down.

1983 M. Glenny tr. Y. Trifonov Another Life 116 She had to bite her tongue..because he really was in trouble and you don't hit a man when he's down.

2018 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 25 Mar. 27 I won't kick a man when he's down. I hope he gets the help he needs.

P3. to be down on (also upon).

†a. British slang. To be aware of, to understand. See sense 29. Obsolete.

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1792 J. Pearson Polit. Dict. 29 Egad, the Baronet was down upon it.

1811 Sporting Mag. 37 76 Was down upon him, and clearly up to his gossip.

1839 G. Almar Oliver Twist i. ix. 29 Fag. (To Dodger.) Take Oliver on the prowl and try him. You are down on what I mean, Dodger? Dod. Down as a hammer!

1865 G. F. Berkeley My Life & Recoll. II. iv. 103 I'm down on it all; the monkey never bit your dog.

b. To come down on (a person); to fall upon; to assail, esp. with criticism or reprimands.

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1811 W. Scott Let. Sept. (1932) II. 543 The Edinburgh reviewers have been down on my poor Don Roderick, hand to fist.

1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. vi. 123 We were out from the alders in a minute, and down upon them.

1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland II. vi. 196 The critics would have been down on the author as an absurd bungler.

1930 ‘H. Z. Smith’ Not so Quiet iii. 73 You've got to toe the plimsoll or you'll throw the line out of gear, and Commandant will be down on you.

1976 D. Kearns Lyndon Johnson & Amer. Dream x. 291 I knew that the moment we said out loud that this or that program was a failure, then the wolves who never wanted us to be successful in the first place would be down upon us at once.

2015 M. Styles Summer of Viking iii. 44 Any whisper and Lord Edwin could be down on them, demanding to know why this man wasn't dead.

c. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). To be opposed to; to show or express disapproval of.

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1825 H. Wilson Eng. Society in Brussels iii. 27 Yet people will be down upon him, he Came here, the folks say, for œconomy.

1851 Alta California (San Francisco) 5 Aug. 2/3 Here the factory girls appear to be ‘down’ on the style.

1854 Daily Calif. Chron. 26 Sept. To refuse payment of the trifling bills of a few journals who had latterly perhaps been down on them.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xiv. 335 Some persons..glory in saying that they are ‘down’ on religion altogether.

1931 V. Palmer Separate Lives 111 ‘They're down on her for some reason or other,’ he told himself. ‘Angry, most likely, because she's hung on to her boy.’

1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 15/2 You know, they're down on it. They don't really dig it at all.

2013 A. Gibbons Raining Fire ii. 28 Mum took care of herself. And us. Why was I so down on her?

P4. to be down to.

a. To be reduced or limited to (a specified amount or thing); to be decreased in size, quantity, or amount to.

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1808 Scots Mag. Apr. 295/2 Flour is down to two dollars 25 cents. the barrel.

1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 2 Aug. 8/4 The Madison and Indianapolis Railroad shares are down to 85.

1915 G. W. Let. in New Fun 24 Apr. 15/3 My waist is down to 17 inches and my hips are getting abnormal for a male.

1970 ‘O. John’ Diamond Dress iii. 39 Part of the autostrada is down to single line traffic... Road repairs.

1983 R. Brown Voy. of Iceberg 110 Their weight is down to fifty pounds and a pup that's all skin and grief is no use to anyone.

2018 @SoapMcT07 29 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Yer boi here is giving up smoking, normally 20 a day and I'm currently down to 3.

b. To be left with only (a specified amount or thing).

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1914 Sat. Evening Post 4 Apr. 11/1 A gay-cat..will turn against a friend when that friend is down to tomato cans.

1947 D. Thomas Let. 11 July (1987) 652 We are down to our last ten pounds, & the British Council will give me none.

1991 C. Fremlin Dangerous Thoughts xxiii. 145 I'm down to my last Temazepam! Just one left, I shan't get a wink of sleep with only one.

2010 L. Freeman in M. Engelhard Cold Flashes 53 Her husband went to Eagle for supplies. They were down to beans and pancake mix.

c. Chiefly British. To be attributable to. Cf. to put down 5b at put v. Phrasal verbs 1.

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1955 Times 5 Aug. 11/5 Wattam said: ‘It's down to me, the stamps and postal orders belong to me. They are nothing to do with the wife. I've done all the jobs.’

1962 R. Cook Crust on its Uppers i. 24 Obscurely it's all down to Mum, who certainly does..seem to have dragged him up a bit strange.

1983 Financial Times 24 Nov. 26/6 His good humour may be down to the fact that he is among the many hundreds of publicans..who could qualify for a share of a £5m windfall.

1985 Sunday Tel. 26 May 11/6 The boom in Gucci and Pucci and..Lacoste ‘names’ on clothes, bags and other ornamentation is all down to the Yuppies.

2007 Hello! 17 July 103/2 A large part of the show's success has been down to the decision to put viewers centre-stage.

d. Chiefly British. To be the responsibility of, to be incumbent upon. Cf. up to ——, up adv.² 19d.

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1970 P. Laurie Scotl. Yard 289 Down to:..X is down to Y = X is Y's responsibility.

1986 City Limits 16 Oct. 41 The clothes are by Jean-Paul Gaultier, the basslines are by Blackmon, and the dancing is down to you.

2004 G. Woodward I'll go to Bed at Noon xiv. 263 Then they'll have to evict him, but they won't do it on their own, it'll be down to me to push them through the courts and sort it out.

P5.

down below adv. euphemistic in the genital region.

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?1837 Cuckold's Nest 14 To tell you, sweet Kate, I am not ashamed, When you fell, I saw you'd got a mouth down below, And if you'd let me fill it, you'd banish my woe.

1910 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex (ed. 3) I. 53 Women..have absolutely no name for the vulva.., but speak of it as ‘down below’, ‘low down’, etc.

1982 T. G. Duncan Over 55 165 Itching ‘down below’, a common warning signal [of diabetes].

2002 Createonline Nov. 32/1 With the popularity of baggy trousers, it can be next to impossible to figure out whether a fella's got a Tiny Tim or a Notorious B.I.G. down below.

down there adv. euphemistic in the genital region.

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1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xiv. 242 She'd clutch clutch with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy.

1963 Public Opinion Q. 27 291 How old were you when hair first began to grow down there?

1994 L. de Bernières Capt. Corelli's Mandolin xxi. 137 If you shave him, you know, down there, it'll get rid of any crab lice.

P6. U.S. colloquial. to be down in the (also one's) back (also arms, legs, etc.): to be in poor health; esp. to be suffering from pain in the specified part of the body.

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1907 H. B. Wright Shepherd of Hills i. 17 Pap he's down in th' back now, an' ain't right peart.

1940 Amer. Speech 15 447/1 Ill or in poor health. ‘I'm down in the middles’.

1954 Harder Coll. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 164/1 Down in (his) back (legs, arms, kidneys, etc.) Weak (in some part of the body).

1978 E. G. Massey Bittersweet Country 206 My father has been down in his back all week.

2018 @nitrodanielle 12 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Hes [sic] so down in his back neighbor had to come help him off the couch.

P7. one (two, etc.) down, one (two, etc.) to go and variants: used to express progress through a series of items or tasks with a specified number completed or dealt with, and a specified number remaining; cf. go v. 9c.In early use often with reference to defeating or bringing down a series of opponents (cf. senses 2d, 17a).

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1920 Independent (N.Y.) 6 Mar. 346/2 (cartoon caption) One down—one to go. John Bull [in boxing ring, to Labour Extremist]: All the time I've been fighting Fritz you've been threatening me. Now come on!

1925 Washington Post 21 Aug. 15/6 (advt.) One down, two to go! Our three-day sale..is already making a quick clean-up.

1947 A. P. Cage Nothingness of War i. 32 ‘Two Down and One to Go.’ Mussolini had been reported shot to death... Hitler had fled... Hirohito..trembled.

1970 Times 18 Nov. 11/7 Two years down, one to go.

1997 K. Denton Wedding Escapade xi. 174 Five different companies, one-day sessions each. Four down, one to go.

2018 Sc. Sun (Nexis) 9 Apr. 15 The manager has set us a target of winning our last five games...That's one victory down so only four more to go.

P8. U.S. down cold: memorized or mastered perfectly. Often in to have (also to get) (something) down cold: to learn or master (a subject, skill, etc.) perfectly; to be able to recite or perform readily and faultlessly from memory.Cf. to have (a story, routine, etc.) (off, down) pat at pat adv.¹ and adj. Phrases 1.

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1932 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 23 Jan. 2/5 I made my young visitor promise..that he would set about getting world geography down cold.

1967 Independent (Pasadena, Calif.) 21 Mar. 6/1 I've never been able to get that sweeping entrance down cold.

1993 L. Chunovic Chris-in-the-Morning 51 It's to be expected that Chris..is a little hazy on algebra, but you can bet he's got the Superstring Theory down cold.

2014 M. Copeland Life in Motion 31 I was determined that the team would have the steps down cold.

P9. colloquial (chiefly U.S.) (originally in African-American usage). to be down with (a person or thing): to support, go along with, or approve of someone or something; (also) to be knowledgeable or well-informed about someone or something.

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1944 D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive ii. 15 I'm with it... I'm down with the action to my own satisfaction. Do you dig?

1955 Down Beat 5 Oct. 51 I don't know who the singer is, 'cause I'm not down with all the singers now.

1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens iv. 131 He..ended his presentation with, ‘No matter what I say, you guys gonna vote for the fellas you down with.’

1993 Newsweek (Nexis) 26 July (Arts section) 46 I'm down with them. I've been working with them since I was 14.

2012 Vanity Fair July 95/1 One might think Stewart would be down with the package-oriented ways of the entertainment business, since she's a homegrown Hollywood product.

P10. to get down to: see to get down 2b at get v. Phrasal verbs 1; down to the ground: see ground n. 8b; down by the head: see head n.¹ Phrases 1d; down in the hip: see hip n.¹ Phrases 4; down on the knuckle-bone: see knuckle-bone n. 1; down on one's luck: see luck n. Phrases 5c; down in the mouth: see mouth n. Phrases 3c; down to the nitty-gritty: see nitty-gritty n.; down by the stern: see stern n.³ 2b; down on one's uppers: see upper n.¹ 1b; down to the wire: see wire n.¹ 12.

单词	to be down to
释义	> as lemmas to be down to Phrases P1. down yonder adv. (a) down there; down at or to a particular place (now archaic and regional); (b) spec. (U.S.) in or into the States south of the Mason–Dixon line; = down South adv. ΚΠ 1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe i. 3 Now if you bee kinde gentlemen, let vs sit downe yonder, vpon Pennylesse Bench. 1735 J. Ozell tr. L. J. C. S. d'Allainval L'embaras des Richesses: Plague of Riches ii. 113 A Lawyer named Briareus, who lives down yonder, leading to the Beggars-Hospital. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. i. 13 In the methodist chapel down yonder, where they are in the thick of a revival. 1922 H. Creamer & J. T. Layton ’Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (sheet music) 3 'Way down yonder in New Orleans In the land of dreamy scenes. 1944 D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive 133 A big Northern city where lines of color are not so pronounced as down yonder. 1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) i. 43 We can cross right down yonder off of that shoal. 2013 A. M. Howell Raised up down Yonder vi. 145 We're not all country..and you know talk like ‘down yonder’. P2. to kick (also hit, etc.) a man when he is down and variants: to cause further harm or upset to someone who is already suffering or in a difficult situation. Frequently in negative contexts. ΚΠ 1784 Monthly Rev. Aug. 145 Is it not somewhat ungenerous to insult the fallen, and to strike a man when he is down? 1830 Mechanics' Mag. 3 Apr. 78/1 Mr. Gilman acknowledges himself ashamed... Had he contented himself with only doing that, I should have been satisfied.., for..I would never kick a man when he is down. 1874 Locke's National Monthly Aug. 345/1 ‘Lish,’ he said reproachfully, ‘don't hit a feller when he's down.’ 1912 Sunday at Home 1911–12 622/2 Trust them goodens to hit a gal when she's down. 1946 N. Coward Diary 22 Dec. (2000) 72 A subconscious urge on her part to kick me good and proud when I was down. 1983 M. Glenny tr. Y. Trifonov Another Life 116 She had to bite her tongue..because he really was in trouble and you don't hit a man when he's down. 2018 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 25 Mar. 27 I won't kick a man when he's down. I hope he gets the help he needs. P3. to be down on (also upon). †a. British slang. To be aware of, to understand. See sense 29. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1792 J. Pearson Polit. Dict. 29 Egad, the Baronet was down upon it. 1811 Sporting Mag. 37 76 Was down upon him, and clearly up to his gossip. 1839 G. Almar Oliver Twist i. ix. 29 Fag. (To Dodger.) Take Oliver on the prowl and try him. You are down on what I mean, Dodger? Dod. Down as a hammer! 1865 G. F. Berkeley My Life & Recoll. II. iv. 103 I'm down on it all; the monkey never bit your dog. b. To come down on (a person); to fall upon; to assail, esp. with criticism or reprimands. ΚΠ 1811 W. Scott Let. Sept. (1932) II. 543 The Edinburgh reviewers have been down on my poor Don Roderick, hand to fist. 1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. vi. 123 We were out from the alders in a minute, and down upon them. 1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland II. vi. 196 The critics would have been down on the author as an absurd bungler. 1930 ‘H. Z. Smith’ Not so Quiet iii. 73 You've got to toe the plimsoll or you'll throw the line out of gear, and Commandant will be down on you. 1976 D. Kearns Lyndon Johnson & Amer. Dream x. 291 I knew that the moment we said out loud that this or that program was a failure, then the wolves who never wanted us to be successful in the first place would be down upon us at once. 2015 M. Styles Summer of Viking iii. 44 Any whisper and Lord Edwin could be down on them, demanding to know why this man wasn't dead. c. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). To be opposed to; to show or express disapproval of. ΚΠ 1825 H. Wilson Eng. Society in Brussels iii. 27 Yet people will be down upon him, he Came here, the folks say, for œconomy. 1851 Alta California (San Francisco) 5 Aug. 2/3 Here the factory girls appear to be ‘down’ on the style. 1854 Daily Calif. Chron. 26 Sept. To refuse payment of the trifling bills of a few journals who had latterly perhaps been down on them. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xiv. 335 Some persons..glory in saying that they are ‘down’ on religion altogether. 1931 V. Palmer Separate Lives 111 ‘They're down on her for some reason or other,’ he told himself. ‘Angry, most likely, because she's hung on to her boy.’ 1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 15/2 You know, they're down on it. They don't really dig it at all. 2013 A. Gibbons Raining Fire ii. 28 Mum took care of herself. And us. Why was I so down on her? P4. to be down to. a. To be reduced or limited to (a specified amount or thing); to be decreased in size, quantity, or amount to. ΚΠ 1808 Scots Mag. Apr. 295/2 Flour is down to two dollars 25 cents. the barrel. 1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 2 Aug. 8/4 The Madison and Indianapolis Railroad shares are down to 85. 1915 G. W. Let. in New Fun 24 Apr. 15/3 My waist is down to 17 inches and my hips are getting abnormal for a male. 1970 ‘O. John’ Diamond Dress iii. 39 Part of the autostrada is down to single line traffic... Road repairs. 1983 R. Brown Voy. of Iceberg 110 Their weight is down to fifty pounds and a pup that's all skin and grief is no use to anyone. 2018 @SoapMcT07 29 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Yer boi here is giving up smoking, normally 20 a day and I'm currently down to 3. b. To be left with only (a specified amount or thing). ΚΠ 1914 Sat. Evening Post 4 Apr. 11/1 A gay-cat..will turn against a friend when that friend is down to tomato cans. 1947 D. Thomas Let. 11 July (1987) 652 We are down to our last ten pounds, & the British Council will give me none. 1991 C. Fremlin Dangerous Thoughts xxiii. 145 I'm down to my last Temazepam! Just one left, I shan't get a wink of sleep with only one. 2010 L. Freeman in M. Engelhard Cold Flashes 53 Her husband went to Eagle for supplies. They were down to beans and pancake mix. c. Chiefly British. To be attributable to. Cf. to put down 5b at put v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1955 Times 5 Aug. 11/5 Wattam said: ‘It's down to me, the stamps and postal orders belong to me. They are nothing to do with the wife. I've done all the jobs.’ 1962 R. Cook Crust on its Uppers i. 24 Obscurely it's all down to Mum, who certainly does..seem to have dragged him up a bit strange. 1983 Financial Times 24 Nov. 26/6 His good humour may be down to the fact that he is among the many hundreds of publicans..who could qualify for a share of a £5m windfall. 1985 Sunday Tel. 26 May 11/6 The boom in Gucci and Pucci and..Lacoste ‘names’ on clothes, bags and other ornamentation is all down to the Yuppies. 2007 Hello! 17 July 103/2 A large part of the show's success has been down to the decision to put viewers centre-stage. d. Chiefly British. To be the responsibility of, to be incumbent upon. Cf. up to ——, up adv.² 19d. ΚΠ 1970 P. Laurie Scotl. Yard 289 Down to:..X is down to Y = X is Y's responsibility. 1986 City Limits 16 Oct. 41 The clothes are by Jean-Paul Gaultier, the basslines are by Blackmon, and the dancing is down to you. 2004 G. Woodward I'll go to Bed at Noon xiv. 263 Then they'll have to evict him, but they won't do it on their own, it'll be down to me to push them through the courts and sort it out. P5. a. down below adv. euphemistic in the genital region. ΚΠ ?1837 Cuckold's Nest 14 To tell you, sweet Kate, I am not ashamed, When you fell, I saw you'd got a mouth down below, And if you'd let me fill it, you'd banish my woe. 1910 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex (ed. 3) I. 53 Women..have absolutely no name for the vulva.., but speak of it as ‘down below’, ‘low down’, etc. 1982 T. G. Duncan Over 55 165 Itching ‘down below’, a common warning signal [of diabetes]. 2002 Createonline Nov. 32/1 With the popularity of baggy trousers, it can be next to impossible to figure out whether a fella's got a Tiny Tim or a Notorious B.I.G. down below. b. down there adv. euphemistic in the genital region. ΚΠ 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xiv. 242 She'd clutch clutch with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy. 1963 Public Opinion Q. 27 291 How old were you when hair first began to grow down there? 1994 L. de Bernières Capt. Corelli's Mandolin xxi. 137 If you shave him, you know, down there, it'll get rid of any crab lice. P6. U.S. colloquial. to be down in the (also one's) back (also arms, legs, etc.): to be in poor health; esp. to be suffering from pain in the specified part of the body. ΚΠ 1907 H. B. Wright Shepherd of Hills i. 17 Pap he's down in th' back now, an' ain't right peart. 1940 Amer. Speech 15 447/1 Ill or in poor health. ‘I'm down in the middles’. 1954 Harder Coll. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 164/1 Down in (his) back (legs, arms, kidneys, etc.) Weak (in some part of the body). 1978 E. G. Massey Bittersweet Country 206 My father has been down in his back all week. 2018 @nitrodanielle 12 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Hes [sic] so down in his back neighbor had to come help him off the couch. P7. one (two, etc.) down, one (two, etc.) to go and variants: used to express progress through a series of items or tasks with a specified number completed or dealt with, and a specified number remaining; cf. go v. 9c.In early use often with reference to defeating or bringing down a series of opponents (cf. senses 2d, 17a). ΚΠ 1920 Independent (N.Y.) 6 Mar. 346/2 (cartoon caption) One down—one to go. John Bull [in boxing ring, to Labour Extremist]: All the time I've been fighting Fritz you've been threatening me. Now come on! 1925 Washington Post 21 Aug. 15/6 (advt.) One down, two to go! Our three-day sale..is already making a quick clean-up. 1947 A. P. Cage Nothingness of War i. 32 ‘Two Down and One to Go.’ Mussolini had been reported shot to death... Hitler had fled... Hirohito..trembled. 1970 Times 18 Nov. 11/7 Two years down, one to go. 1997 K. Denton Wedding Escapade xi. 174 Five different companies, one-day sessions each. Four down, one to go. 2018 Sc. Sun (Nexis) 9 Apr. 15 The manager has set us a target of winning our last five games...That's one victory down so only four more to go. P8. U.S. down cold: memorized or mastered perfectly. Often in to have (also to get) (something) down cold: to learn or master (a subject, skill, etc.) perfectly; to be able to recite or perform readily and faultlessly from memory.Cf. to have (a story, routine, etc.) (off, down) pat at pat adv.¹ and adj. Phrases 1. ΚΠ 1932 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 23 Jan. 2/5 I made my young visitor promise..that he would set about getting world geography down cold. 1967 Independent (Pasadena, Calif.) 21 Mar. 6/1 I've never been able to get that sweeping entrance down cold. 1993 L. Chunovic Chris-in-the-Morning 51 It's to be expected that Chris..is a little hazy on algebra, but you can bet he's got the Superstring Theory down cold. 2014 M. Copeland Life in Motion 31 I was determined that the team would have the steps down cold. P9. colloquial (chiefly U.S.) (originally in African-American usage). to be down with (a person or thing): to support, go along with, or approve of someone or something; (also) to be knowledgeable or well-informed about someone or something. ΚΠ 1944 D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive ii. 15 I'm with it... I'm down with the action to my own satisfaction. Do you dig? 1955 Down Beat 5 Oct. 51 I don't know who the singer is, 'cause I'm not down with all the singers now. 1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens iv. 131 He..ended his presentation with, ‘No matter what I say, you guys gonna vote for the fellas you down with.’ 1993 Newsweek (Nexis) 26 July (Arts section) 46 I'm down with them. I've been working with them since I was 14. 2012 Vanity Fair July 95/1 One might think Stewart would be down with the package-oriented ways of the entertainment business, since she's a homegrown Hollywood product. P10. to get down to: see to get down 2b at get v. Phrasal verbs 1; down to the ground: see ground n. 8b; down by the head: see head n.¹ Phrases 1d; down in the hip: see hip n.¹ Phrases 4; down on the knuckle-bone: see knuckle-bone n. 1; down on one's luck: see luck n. Phrases 5c; down in the mouth: see mouth n. Phrases 3c; down to the nitty-gritty: see nitty-gritty n.; down by the stern: see stern n.³ 2b; down on one's uppers: see upper n.¹ 1b; down to the wire: see wire n.¹ 12. extracted from downadv. < as lemmas
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