down to
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, to.
- I had to walk down to the ground floor.
- Go down to the shops.
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- Her hair came down to her waist.
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Ready or willing to (do something specified).
- Are you down to go to the cinema?
- Hey, I'm always down to make art together if you want.2025 June 20, Gooseworx, “Untitled” (13:43 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 5, spoken by Zooble (Ashley Nichols):
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With no one/nothing remaining but.
- I'm down to my last few sleeping pills.
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Within the responsibility or influence of.
- What type of person you become is down to you.
- So I guess the cooking is now down to me.
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Due to; because of.
- The failure was down to total neglect.
- It's down to me, the way she talks when she's spoken to / Down to me, the change has come, she's under my thumb.1966, The Rolling Stones, Under My Thumb:
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- The intermittent signal dropout was down to a faulty connection which he'd fixed in seconds.2005, Stel Pavlou, Decipher:
- That difficulty is down to significant natural variations in average Antarctic stratospheric springtime ozone levels from year to year2011 May 16, James Mitchell Crow, “First signs of ozone-hole recovery spotted”, in Nature:
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Including even the smallest parts.
- We checked everything down to the last/smallest detail.