come down to earth
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Pronunciation
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Verb
come down to earth (third-person singular simple present comes down to earth, present participle coming down to earth, simple past came down to earth, past participle come down to earth)
- (idiomatic, of an event, thing, person) To be brought back to reality; to emerge from a daydream.
- 1981-1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- So many good things have been happening for me, and I've just been such a happy man. I've wanted to write earlier but couldn't come down to earth long enough.
- 1981-1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Translations
idiomatic expression
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