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down to

Preposition

Meaning

Next to; near; towards; as far as.
Go down to the shops.

Ready to (do something specified).

With no one/nothing remaining but.
I'm down to my last few sleeping pills.

Due to.
What type of person you become is down to you.
So I guess the cooking is now down to me.

Including even the smallest parts.
We checked everything down to the last/smallest detail.

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I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there. Coco Chanel

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau

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

Even the mightest eagle comes down to the tree tops to rest. Kiganda Proverb

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. Persian Proverb

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