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.

   • 2025 October 2, Claire Fahy, “Norovirus Outbreak Sickens Nearly 100 on Royal Caribbean Cruise”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Almost 100 people came down with norovirus aboard a Royal Caribbean ship amid a 13-day voyage, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported earlier this week.

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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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