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Today's Idiom = "Down With Some Disease"






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Down With Some Disease ( because of sickness one is unable to get up and go out ... )

"Down With Some Disease"



A person who is "down with" a sickness cannot get up and do healthy things because of that sickness.

Example: "I can't come to work today. I'm down with the flu."

Example: "My mother can't be here today because she is down with cancer."



You are "down with" that illness when because of that illness you cannot get up and go out.

Example: "All of our children are down with the measles." Reply: "We hope they will be back in school next week."





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