Meaning of down to | Babel Free
Definitions
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, to.
- Ready to (do something specified).
- With no one/nothing remaining but.
- Within the responsibility or influence of.
- Due to; because of.
- Including even the smallest parts.
Examples
“I had to walk down to the ground floor.”
“Go down to the shops.”
“Her hair came down to her waist.”
“Are you down to go to the cinema?”
“I'm down to my last few sleeping pills.”
“What type of person you become is down to you.”
“So I guess the cooking is now down to me.”
“The failure was down to total neglect.”
“It's down to me, the way she talks when she's spoken to / Down to me, the change has come, she's under my thumb.”
“The intermittent signal dropout was down to a faulty connection which he'd fixed in seconds.”
“That difficulty is down to significant natural variations in average Antarctic stratospheric springtime ozone levels from year to year”
“We checked everything down to the last/smallest detail.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.