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come down to

Verb

Meaning

To reach by moving down or reducing.
Wait for the temperature to come down to a reasonable level before touching the lid.
Come down to my place someday and have lunch.

(idiomatic) To entirely depend upon a single factor; basically, ultimately or in essence.
The decision comes down to whether you really want to pay that much for a little extra convenience.
The game is going to come down to the last five seconds.

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Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to. Germaine Greer

Venerable men you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. Daniel Webster

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left? David Bowie

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity. Voltaire

The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection. Ibn Khaldun

Continue to do good, and heaven will come down to you. Hawaiian Proverb

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