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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down with

Riley Lubas, 20, came down with a bad cold in March 2025 in his first year at university, and took two over-the counter medicines without realising they both contained paracetamol.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Samuel D. Hunter, whose plays ‘Grangeville’ and ‘A Case for the Existence of God’ are running concurrently in the city, sits down with theater critic Charles McNulty to talk about his prolific career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Another starting quarterback in that mold, the Minnesota Vikings’ Kyler Murray, went down with a concussion in his team’s debut after taking a hit to the head on a scramble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

For the executives sitting down with Xi, China can be a customer, a factory floor, a regulator and a rival — sometimes all at once.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

I put the lettuce and the apple down with the jar of water, near the little house.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

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