come down

come down
come down
1. Sl. to happen. •

Hey, man! What's coming down?

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When something like this comes down, I have to stop and think things over.

2. a letdown; a disappointment. (Usually comedown.) •

The loss of the race was a real comedown for Willard.

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It's hard to face a comedown like that.

3. Sl. to begin to recover from the effects of alcohol or drug intoxication. •

She came down slow from her addiction, which was good.

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It was hard to get her to come down.

4. [for something] to descend (to someone) through inheritance. •

All my silverware came down to me from my great-grandmother.

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The antique furniture came down through my mother's family.

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{v.} 1. To reduce itself; amount to no more than. - Followed by "to". * /The quarrel finally came down to a question of which boy would do the dishes./ Syn.: BOIL DOWN(3). 2. To be handed down or passed along, descend from parent to child; pass from older generation to younger ones. * /Mary's necklace had come down to her from her grandmother./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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