down with

Idioms  

1. Ill with, as in He's down with the flu . The down here alludes to being felled by illness. Also see come down with .

2. Depose, do away with, as in Down with the king! This imperative dates from the early 1500s.

3. Lower or put something down, as in Down with the mainsail . [Mid-1600s]

4. . Be close friends with, as in I'm down with that crowd . [ Slang ; late 1900s]

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Example Sentences

Alpha’s mom, who works in a hospital vainly treating these incurable patients, doesn’t want her only child to come down with the disease.

From Los Angeles Times

Worse yet, hours after Felix’s departure, the Platters’ housemaid came down with the plague.

From The Wall Street Journal

Or, to put it another way, that if the stock and bond markets go down, your income would have to go down with it.

From MarketWatch

After the brief romantic entanglement, female 1H1 settled down with male 374 and they became the second pair of breeding ospreys in southern England since 1847.

From BBC

“It’s like, sit down with the Iranians as quickly as you can and reach a truce, and then secure the Strait.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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