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71come down on someone like a ton of bricks — be/come down on (someone) like a ton of bricks informal to punish someone very quickly and severely. If you miss any more classes, your teachers will be down on you like a ton of bricks. When he failed to supply his accounts, tax inspectors came… …
72come down on like a ton of bricks — be/come down on (someone) like a ton of bricks informal to punish someone very quickly and severely. If you miss any more classes, your teachers will be down on you like a ton of bricks. When he failed to supply his accounts, tax inspectors came… …
73come\ down\ in\ the\ world — v. phr. To lose a place of respect or honor, become lower (as in rank or fortune). The stranger plainly had come down a long way in the world. Compare: down on one s luck …
74come down with — PHRASAL VERB If you come down with an illness, you get it. [V P P n] Thomas came down with chickenpox at the weekend …
75come down with — phr verb Come down with is used with these nouns as the object: ↑bug, ↑fever, ↑flu …
76come down hard — punish hard, throw the book at The teachers come down hard on cheating. They suspend cheaters …
77come down to earth — be realistic, get your head out of the clouds If she d come down to earth, if she d stop dreaming about fame, she could pass her exams …
78come down to earth — stop imagining or dreaming, think and behave as usual He has finally come down to earth and is preparing seriously to look for a job …
79come down with — the whole family has come down with chicken pox Syn: fall ill with, fall sick with, be taken ill with, show symptoms of, become infected with, get, catch, develop, contract, fall victim to …
80come down — Synonyms and related words: alight, be found, be met with, be realized, befall, betide, cascade, cataract, collapse, come, come about, come in, come off, come to pass, come true, crash, crash land, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, dip… …
