TO COME DOWN

Definition: TO COME DOWN

TO COME DOWN

1. (a) To descend. (b) To be humbled.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO COME DOWN

Look, I really don't think they flew 90 billion light years to come down here and start a fight. (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich)

Just the right size for the Big Bad Wolf to come down the chimney unless he's already here. (Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within; writing credit: Jane Jensen)

What'd you think? You think I was the only one he gave a job to, Calvin? No! That man opened up the doors to anybody and any knucklehead around here in the city of Chicago that wanted to come down here and make somebody out themselves. (Barbershop; writing credit: Mark Brown)

They don't want to come down. (Beetlejuice; writing credit: Michael McDowell; Warren Skaaren)

Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Ever want to come down, so down, so down, so down YEAH! (Welcome To The Jungle; performing artist: Guns N' Roses)

You have to come down (Why They Call It Fallin; performing artist: Lee Ann Womack)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

To soothe Ellis I called Frank to come down from his perch. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't you boys want to come down and help?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Netherlands

The stock of public debt fell in step from well over 67 percent in 1998 to 56.3 percent of GDP in 2000. The debt to GDP ratio is forecast to come down further to slightly less than 50 percent of GDP in 2002, which is well below the EMU 60 percent debt to GDP criterion. (references)

Sweden

Gross public debt, which jumped from 43 percent of GDP in 1990 to 78 percent in 1994, stabilized around the middle of the 1990s and started to come down again more significantly from 1999. In 2000 it fell below the key level of 60 percent and is expected to be eliminated within a few years. (references)

Belgium

Meanwhile, wage costs seem to be under control for the time being, while unemployment is expected to come down from 7 percent in 2000 to 6.8 percent in 2001. However, the 6.8 percent is an average figure which glosses over significant differences between both demand and supply as well as between regions. (references)

Political Economy

SWEDEN

During 1995 and 1996, Sweden pulled out of its worst and longest recession since the 1930s (GDP declined by six percent from 1991 to 1993). Unemployment started to come down in 1998, from average figures as high as 12 to 14 percent in the mid-1990s, now down to around 7.3 percent. (references)

AUSTRIA

The budget consolidation process is hard, however, as the federal deficit had to come down from 2.5 percent of GDP in 1999. Strong economic growth and swift implementation of tax increases and pension reform helped the new government to limit the federal deficit to 1.4 percent of GDP in 2000 and the consolidated public sector deficit to 1.1 percent of GDP. The government intends to further reduce the federal deficit to 1.1 percent in 2001 and to 0.7 percent by 2002, and to balance the consolidated public sector budget by 2002. Reduced economic growth prospects, increased spending on family allowances and halting public service reform, however, make the target more difficult to hit. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "TO COME DOWN": To come down upon. Additional references.

Chinese 

降 (surrender, to descend, to drop, to fall). (various references)

German

auf den Boden der Wirklichkeit zurückkommen (to come down to earth). (various references)

Hungarian

rászáll (utókorra), omlik (to pour), lesüllyed (to dip, to give way), lenyúlik, lejön (come down, descend, go down, take off, to be down, to come off, to get down, to get off), lecsúszik (come down in the world, glissade, to go bust, to shin down, to slide down, to slip down, to slip off), leér (get down), korlátozódik (to be confined), kidől, esik (drop, fall, fallen, fell, to fall, to fall upon, to go flop, to misfire, to plummet, to rain cats and dogs, to sag), összpontosul (center, centre, come together, rally, to focus), összerogy (collapse, to fall flop), öröklődik. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

冷める (to abate, to become cool, to cool down, to dampen, to subside, to wear off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さめる (to abate, to awake, to become cool, to come to one's senses, to cool down, to dampen, to discolour, to fade, to get sober, to subside, to wake, to wake up, to wear off). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: comedown, downcome, woodnote.

-3 letters: monocot, towmond, woodmen.

-4 letters: comedo, condom, cowmen, docent, mooned, mooted, tomcod, wonted, wooden.

-5 letters: cento, coden, codon, comet, comte, condo, coned, conte, conto, cooed, coted, cowed, demon, endow, monde, mondo, monte, mooed, mowed, noted, odeon, owned, tondo, toned, towed, women, wooed.

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