Be down
be depressed, in low spirits, as in during the winter months sue’s always down, but spring cheers her up. [ ; mid-1800s ]
be knowledgeable, canny, or sophisticated, as in he was really down with the new group. this usage probably originated among jazz musicians. [ ; mid-1940s ]
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- Bedrail
a board at the side of a bed connecting the footboard and headboard. historical examples hesitating, may clung to the bedrail; but she slipped at last into the sheet. the narrow house evelyn scott the cigarette end dropped, the thin pyjama’d figure writhed up and stood clutching at the bedrail. five tales john galsworthy but […]
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the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to […]
- Be eating someone
to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food). to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode: the patient was eaten by disease and pain. to make (a hole, p-ssage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion. to ravage or devastate: a forest eaten by fire. to use […]