“Do you want to do this thing with me?”
“I’m down.”
“I’m up for it.”
Gotta get up to get down.
“I get knocked down! But I get up again! And you’re never gonna keep me down!”
As a non native speaker, this messed me up for years
I always heard about “being up” for something, so I logically assumed that being down meant the inverse. Even more that “feeling down” usually means not being able to do things.
Not to confuse you more, but with your phrasing you are correct.
If you’re up for it, or being up for something, you are interested. Similarly, if you’re down for something, or you’d be down for it, you are interested.
But if you are feeling down, you are not up for it.
The former 2, the verb is the action of being ready.
In the latter, the verb is feeling and down is the state.
For example, despite me feeling down I’m down to go out and party tonight.
It’s not about the crest or the trough. It’s about the motion of the ocean baby.
Up and down are both disturbed, ya dig? It means the thing made an impression on you. Got under your skin, gave you the itch, it’s bugging you, eating at you, lighting a fire under your ass, putting you in the hot seat.
No more smooth sailing. Buy the ticket, take the ride, you know? Get this idea off the ground, get up and bounce. You know, jump around.
Get up, get up, and get down.
“Hey you want some potato chips?”
- “Potato chip sounds good” => Yes please
- “I’m good” => No thanks
Messed me up all the time first time came to the US. Why use positive response for rejection?
In the game of hell let loose you’re constantly trying to build Garrison’s for your team to spawn on, and destroy Garrison’s so your enemy can’t spawn.
Highly ambiguous
Garrison down on the point!
Does this mean a friendly Garrison was just built? Does this mean the enemy Garrison was just destroyed? Who knows! Why not both?
Schrödinger’s Garrison
It makes a little more sense with the context that “I’m down” is shortened slang for “I’ll throw down on that”, itself slang for “I will get in on this situation” (as in “throwing down” some money or chips when gambling)
