come down with

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come down with (third-person singular simple present comes down with, present participle coming down with, simple past came down with, past participle come down with)

1. To contract or get (an illness); to show symptoms of.

   With a scratchy throat and a cough, it feels like I'm coming down with a cold.

   • 1917 April 21, George Draper, “Acute Poliomyelitis: Early Diagnosis and Serum Therapy”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 68, number 16, Chicago, Ill., →DOI, page 1153:

     It is further reported that when tremendously large doses of virus are given intravenously, from 250 to 500 c.c., the animals come down with the disease.

2. To lay down (money) in payment; to pay.
   • 2011, Charley Rosen, The Wizard of Odds:

     So I diddled around, then came down with the money, and we were finally ready to roll.

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