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Get down

verb

Lower (one's body) as by kneeling.

Move something or somebody to a lower position. Synonyms: bring down, let down, lower, take down.

Alight from (a horse). Synonyms: dismount, get off, light, unhorse.

Pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking. Synonym: swallow.

Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted. Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit. "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

Put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.. Synonyms: put down, set down, write down.

Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action. Synonyms: begin, commence, get, set about, set out, start, start out. "Who will start?" , "Get working as soon as the sun rises!" , "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia" , "He began early in the day" , "Let's get down to work now"

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"Get down" Quotes from Famous Books

... done with the industries which eat up men. We cannot much longer afford to grow whisky where we might grow wheat, for there are ever more mouths to be fed, and wheat is running short. Cheap and dear mean nothing when we get down to realities. Is a thing vital or is it mortal?—that is the only question. It may be vital and costless, like air, or mortal and dear, like alcohol. The question is not how much money can you get from another man for your product, but how much life can mankind get from Nature for it. Thus ...

— Woman and Womanhood - A Search for Principles • C. W. Saleeby

... honesty and decency and fair dealing. Heaven knows I'm no saint, but if I stay here this cursed crookedness will get into my blood and I'll be just as degraded as the worst of them. No, I'm not raving; there have been times when I've felt myself slipping—times when I've been tempted to get down and fight with the weapons that everybody fights with in this ...

— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde

... you must pray. If you will get down at the feet of Jesus, and confess your sins, and ask him to bless you, he will hear you, and give you peace. But if you won't do it," he continued, with growing excitement and kindling anger at the thought, "you are the most infernal rascal ...

— California Sketches, Second Series • O. P. Fitzgerald

... let the child know that you really and truly and sincerely love it. Yet some Christians, good Christians, when a child commits a fault, drive it from the door and say: "Never do you darken this house again." Think of that! And then these same people will get down on their knees and ask God to take care of the child they have driven from home. I will never ask God to take care of my children unless I am doing my level best ...

— The Ghosts - And Other Lectures • Robert G. Ingersoll

... dear Cleek, let us get down to business," he began forthwith. "This amazing case which I wish you to undertake and will, as I have already said, ...

— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew

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