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go down like a cup of sick en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of go down like a cup of cold sick.
    • Harper valued independence and hard work above most other things so, as Annie had expected, the 'I'm not doing the course anymore' conversation was going down like a cup of sick. 2017, Maddie Jane, Transfixed:
    • But I remember saying after one of their gigs — and, by the way, Billy Bragg was someone I got to know later and really liked — 'We need to reach the people listening to Duran Duran and Madonna' (a comment which went down like a cup of sick). 2010, Tony Blair, A Journey, page 91:
    • My face flushed hot as I looked around. My joke had gone down like a cup of sick. 2019, Malorie Blackman, Crossfire:

Forms

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gone down like a cup of sick Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
going down like a cup of sick Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
goes down like a cup of sick Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
went down like a cup of sick Tense=Past lexicographic