be down

1. Be depressed, in low spirits, as in During the winter months Sue's always down, but spring cheers her up . [ Colloquial ; mid-1800s]

2. Be knowledgeable, canny, or sophisticated, as in He was really down with the new group . This usage probably originated among jazz musicians. [ Slang ; mid-1940s]

Example Sentences

But speaking on a visit to Monmouth, Badenoch said any decision on whether the two parties could join forces to form a government would be down to Darren Millar, the Tory leader in Cardiff Bay.

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It had previously guided for comparable sales to be down 1% to up 1%.

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Comparable sales, or those from stores and digital channels in operation for at least a year, are now expected to be down 2.5% to 3%, compared with a previous view of down 4% to 5%.

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“If it’s tracking correctly, you’d be down 99%. … You will basically be wiped out,” Todd Sohn, ETF strategist at Strategas Asset Management, told MarketWatch.

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Manchester City don't seem to have got the memo about scoring more from set-pieces because they've scored three fewer than last season, as have Nottingham Forest, although that might be down to the change in style they have tried to implement.

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