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Come-down — auch: Come|down 〈[kʌmdaʊn] n. 15〉 Zeitraum, über den die Wirkung einer harten Droge nachlässt [zu engl. come down „herunterkommen, sich beruhigen“] * * * Come down [ kʌmdaʊn], das; s, s [engl. come down, eigtl. = Abstieg, zu: to come down =… … Universal-Lexikon
come down — {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 … Dictionary of American idioms
come down — {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 … Dictionary of American idioms
come down — vi came down, coming down: to be announced the decision came down from the Supreme Court Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. come down … Law dictionary
come down — UK US come down Phrasal Verb with come({{}}/kʌm/ verb ► [I] if a price or a level comes down, it becomes lower: »We are expecting interest rates to come down. come down by a third/50%/a lot, etc. »Sales went up and costs came down by about a… … Financial and business terms
come down — intransitive verb Date: 14th century 1. to lose or fall in estate or condition < has come down in the world > 2. a. to pass by tradition < a story that has come down from medieval times > b. to pass from a usually … New Collegiate Dictionary
come down to — verb a) To reach by moving down or reducing. Wait for the temperature to come down to a reasonable level before touching the lid. b) To depend upon, basically, ultimately or in essence. Come down to my place someday and have lunch … Wiktionary
come down — verb a) To descend, fall. Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not. b) To visit, to travel in order to meet. Im feeling so alive, feeling so… … Wiktionary
come down to us — verb To survive to the present day; to be extant in some form. It is somewhat remarkable that none of bishop Ridley’s sermons have come down to us … Wiktionary
come down to — phr verb Come down to is used with these nouns as the object: ↑land … Collocations dictionary
