come down phrasal verb (
see also come)
1. a) if a price, level etc comes down, it gets lower:
It looks as if interest rates will come down again this month. b) to accept a lower price
come down to
He’s asking £5,000, but he may be willing to come down to £4,800.2. if someone comes down to a place, they travel south to the place where you are:
Why don’t you come down for the weekend sometime?come down to
Are you coming down to Knoxville for Christmas?3. to fall to the ground:
A lot of trees came down in the storm.
We were still out in the fields when the rain started coming down.4. come down on the side of somebody/something (
also come down in favour of somebody/something) to decide to support someone or something:
The committee came down in favour of making the information public.5. informal to start to feel normal again after you have been feeling very happy and excited:
He was on a real high all last week and he’s only just come down.6. informal to stop feeling the effects of a strong drug:
When I came down, I remembered with horror some of the things I’d said.7. British English old-fashioned to leave a university after completing a period of study
[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
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. Synonym: 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. [TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲