"Down" Idioms

"Down" Idioms


*Back Down from 
(decide to not fight...)

*Batten Down The Hatches  
(prepare for a big storm...)

*Catch One With One's Pants Down » 
(surprise someone when they were totally unprepared...)

*Clamp Down On Someone Or Something » 
(not allow it to happen anyway; become more strict...)

*Coming Down To Earth » 
(become more realistic...)

*Down For The Count » 
(one is not able to continue, like a fighter who has fallen and cannot get up...)

*Down In The Dumps » 
(upset, bothered, sad; feeling sad, low, depressed...)

*Down On One's Luck » 
(one has been having bad luck lately; bad things have been happening...)

*Down On Someone Or Something » 
(finding faults with or criticizing that one...)

*Down South » 
(the southern part of the country...)

*Down The Drain » 
(it has disappeared and it gone; it is lost...)

*Down The Hatch » 
(drink that drink now; swallow the entire thing now...)

*Down The Street » 
(nearby to where one is; on the same street that one is located...)

*Down The Tubes » 
(it is lost and gone; the thing got ruined...)

*Down To Earth » 
(realistic; grounded; not fake; not pretending; easy to talk with naturally...)

*Down To The Wire » 
(it is close to the finish; there is little time left; we do not yet know who will win...)

*Down With Some Disease » 
(because of sickness one is unable to get up and go out...)

*Facing You Down » 
(stare at a you until you quit and turn away...)

*Force Someone Or Something Down Someone's Throat » 
(force one to do something that they don't want to do...)

*Get Down To Brass Tacks » 
(talk about serious, business-like things...)

*Get Down To Business » 
(talk about a formal or official matter; doing the most important thing...)

*Get Down To The Facts » 
(talk about what really happened; stop wasting time talking about opinions...)

*Get Down To The Nitty Gritty » 
(work on the small details of the project; think and talk about the many small details...)

*Get Down To Work » 
(begin working; stop wasting time...)

*Hand Me Down » 
(used clothing given from older children to younger children...)

*Hands Down » 
(easily; clearly; it is easy to say that one is better than the others...)

*Have Something Down Pat » 
(you can do that thing perfectly; by memory; with no mistakes...)

*He Laid Down This Life For Her » 
(one is killed while while helping another...)

*Laying Down On The Job » 
(acting lazy; not work when one should be working...)

*Laying Down The Law » 
(make the rules that others must follow; be strict; say what the others must do...)

*Look Down On Someone Or Something » 
(not respect that one...)

*Nail Someone Or Something Down » 
(force them to commit to something...)

*Scale Something Down » 
(make the plan smaller; do something less difficult...)

*Settle Down » 
(relax; calm down; live a more relaxing life; stop moving...)

*Simmer Down » 
(relax; quiet down; take it easy; don't be so upset...)

*Slow Someone Or Something Down » 
(cause one to go slower...)

*Split Down The Middle » 
(the results are exactly the same on both sides...)

*Tied Down » 
(something is tied so that it cannot go up...)

*When The Chips Are Down » 
(When things are not going well; how one feels when one is losing...)

*Wind Down » 
(Begin to relax...)

*Write Something Down » 
(Write something on paper to help to record or remember it...)

*A Drag On Someone » 
(something which pulls at ones strength and slows one down...)

*Bite The Dust » 
(fall down...)

*From Dawn To Dusk » 
(all day, from the moment the sun comes up until the moment it goes down...)

*Get A Load Off One's Feet » 
(sit down; rest...)

*Show Someone To A Seat » 
(let that person know where to sit down...)

*Take A Load Off One's Feet » 
(to sit down and rest after standing or walking for a long time...)

*Take A Nosedive » 
(suddenly go down very quickly, like when a crashing airplane heads to the grown nose first...)

*Take A Shower » 
(bathe while standing with water showering down on one...)

*Take A Spill » 
(fall down so that one hits the ground and continues rolling or tumbling...)

*Word For Word » 
(Write something down exactly the same...)
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