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down-to-earth
[ doun-too-urth, -tuh- ]
/ ˈdaʊn tuˈɜrθ, -tə- /
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adjective
practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
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Origin of down-to-earth
First recorded in 1925–30
Words nearby down-to-earth
down the tubes, downthrow, downtick, downtime, down to, down-to-earth, down to size, down to the ground, down to the wire, downtown, downtrend
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How to use down-to-earth in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for down-to-earth
down-to-earth
adjective
sensible; practical; realistic
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Other Idioms and Phrases with down-to-earth
down to earth
Back to reality. For example, It's time the employees were brought down to earth concerning the budget. P.G. Wodehouse had this idiom in Very Good, Jeeves! (1930): “I had for some little time been living . . . in another world. I now came down to earth with a bang.” [Late 1920s]
Also, down-to-earth. Realistic or interested in everyday occurrences, as in She is a very down-to-earth person, not at all involved with the glamour of Hollywood. [1930s]
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