“Do you want to do this thing with me?”

“I’m down.”

“I’m up for it.”

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Gotta get up to get down.

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“I get knocked down! But I get up again! And you’re never gonna keep me down!”

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On the other hand, “knocked down” and “knocked up” have drastically different meanings, which is a little confusing for foreigners sometimes. =P

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Pissing the night away is also a double entendre, meaning wasting time or literally pissing all night from drinking.

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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

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Father, I’ve been bad.

Mommy, I’ve been bad.

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Mother’s gonna keep baby cozy and warm

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Oooh baby, ooh baby, ooh baby

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Similar to calling in sick and calling out sick.

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Because it’s “calling in, sick” and “calling, out sick”

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Yeah when you call in Is you have the day off but want to work so you call into work

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