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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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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. Cyprian

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. Tennessee Williams

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him. Booker T. Washington

Who stands up with anger will sit down with loss. Turkish Proverb

The poor ones give their alms in a humble way, the rich man throws them down with contempt. Chinese Proverb

If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas. Darkovan Proverb

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