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get down

verb

  1. intr; also preposition to dismount or descend
  2. tr; also preposition to bring down

    we could not get the wardrobe down the stairs

  3. tr to write down
  4. tr to make depressed

    your nagging gets me down

  5. tr to swallow

    he couldn't get the meal down

  6. intrfoll byto to attend seriously (to); concentrate (on) (esp in the phrases get down to business or brass tacks )
  7. informal.
    intr to enjoy oneself uninhibitedly, esp by dancing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In Game 5, the Clippers got down by 22 in the fourth, cut the deficit to eight points and then faded.

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Though financial therapy is increasing in popularity, it doesn’t necessarily get down to the nuts and bolts of your finances.

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“If Luke wants to settle it, I get down really well. Anything. Muay Thai, whatever.”

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“You can enjoy tea and also be a baddie. You can love soft moments and also get down on a pole.”

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Nauman, at a tumultuous and perplexing period of upheaval politically, socially and artistically, was getting down to basics.

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