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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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Berliner recalled seeing the barrel of a gun protruding from behind a door and a male voice shouting “We’re the police!” and instructing him to get down on the ground.

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Inevitably, however, the discussion on Signal got down to the attack plans themselves, which according to Goldberg, Hegseth gave out in full, including “information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.”

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Tuchel likes proper wingers who can get down the line and get crosses in.

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He said he had woken to find Burrows "trying to get down into my sleeping bag".

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His plays demonstrate a fierce effort to get down to brass tacks.

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