Meaning of downalator | Babel Free

Definitions

an escalator going downwards

humorous, informal, rare

Examples

““Your own⟳ true love⟳ has set⟳ his foot on the first step of the down-alator.” “The what?” “Opposite number⟳ of the escalator. The down-alator. It leads to the place⟳ where all bad critics go.” […] “I just don't want⟳ you on that down-alator, that's all.” “The what?” “Never mind⟳.””

“One of my children solved that one 25 years ago when he was little more than a toddler. As we were walking through a department store he told me he wanted to ride⟳ the “upalator,” but that the “downalator” was too scary for him. Wouldn’t it be simpler to call⟳ them the upalator and the downalator? The only exception might be the escalator in the Centrum, the big department store in Warsaw. If I remember⟳ correctly, that machine only went up. It had no “down” counterpart.”

“He was right: JCVD — which opens this weekend in New York City, and Nov. 14 in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Jose and Washington, D.C. — is the best movie Van Damme ever made (granted, not the highest encomium), and a cogent, probing, funny critique on celebrity in its downalator phase.”

“To the presidential politics of it: For the first time in months, the president looks like⟳ he's on the Uppalator, not the Downalator.”

““He’s an enormous star who is on what I call⟳ the ‘down-alator’ of his career,” Wilson said. “He’s about to step off the same cliff Eddie Murphy stepped off about 10 years ago. Eddie Murphy has never come⟳ back, and Murphy is more talented.””

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