go down

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go down

1. laskea

   The sun goes down soon.

2. mennä jonnekin etelämmäs t. (etenkin Lontoosta) maalle, vierailla

   We went down to Brighton for the weekend.

   He went up to London for a day and down to the country again.

   I seldom went down to see her, I'm sorry to say now.

3. vähetä, aleta, "mennä alas", laskea; pienentyä

   The Greens' support went down by two percent.

   I lost 10 kg and went down a size.

   The price of coffee has gone down.

   The swelling has gone down.

   The album went down in the charts, but then it went back up again to the Top 10.

4. huonontua

   The neighbourhood has gone down a lot.

5. mennä, käväistä

   Let's go down the pub.

   We're going down the pub.

6. mennä perille, "upota", saada vastakaikua

   His stand-up show went down quite well.

   The Supreme Court ruling went down badly among the Christian Right.

7. upota, pudota
8. tulla kirjatuksi, kirjoitetuksi muistiin t. muistoihin, tallentua, mennä (historiaan)

   His name went down in history.

   I'm sure our conversation went down in the KGB archives afterwards.

9. (brittienglantia) lähteä yliopistosta (tutkinnon suoritettuaan t. lukukauden päätteeksi)
10. (eufemismi) antaa suuseksiä
11. tapahtua

    Police have a pretty clear picture of what went down between them.