down with
Speech parts
1. down with - Preposition
2. down with - Interjection
Meaning
down with...!
Expressing disapproval of or encouraging actions against a person, organization, practice, belief, etc., typically in a public protest.
Down with the government!
(colloquial) Comfortable with; accepting or approving of; okay with
(colloquial) Suffering from (an illness).
Everyone's down with the flu, and I'm in the office all by myself.
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Examples
The frame wearied with labours lies prostrate on the ground, but it is no penalty to lie down with Christ. Your limbs unbathed, are foul and disfigured with filth and dirt; but within they are spiritually cleansed, although without the flesh is defiled.
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Who stands up with anger will sit down with loss.
The poor ones give their alms in a humble way, the rich man throws them down with contempt.
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.