Word info

go down with

Verb

Meaning

To catch or contract (an illness).
Everyone's gone down with the flu, and I'm here in the office all by myself.

(nautical) To die in the sinking of (a ship or boat).
Edward Smith went down with the Titanic.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. Prem Rawat

It can be really fun to go down with the ship. Douglas Coupland

We go down with the bells ringing in all the sunken cities. Forgotten, we are greeted by the embassies of the dead, While your endless flowing carries us on and on; And neither is nor was. The moment only, eternal. Czesław Miłosz

I will go down with this ship And I won't put my hands up and surrender There will be no white flag above my door I'm in love and always will be. Dido

... it would be better for us to go down with Bolshevism than live in eternal slavery under capitalism. Joseph Goebbels

And in the last analysis better to go down with Bolshevism than live in eternal capitalist servitude. Joseph Goebbels

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