No matter how early Icame down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
I'm feeling so alive, feeling so real / On a stormy night, the rain iscoming down / Rain like never before / I've got some records on, some bottles of wine / On a stormy night, the rain is lashing down / And I'm waiting for her.
(intransitive,idiomatic) To return from an elevated state of consciousness (especially when drug-induced) or emotion.
He finallycame down from his post-bonus high.
1982 February 6, Edmund Carvale, “Recovering a Literary Legacy”, inGay Community News, volume 9, number28, page 8:
Navarre is in superb control of his prose, distorting it more and more as the poppers mint Luc's mind, clarifying it as hecomes down.
1995, “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics),Different Class, performed by Pulp:
In the middle of the night, it feels alright / But then tomorrow morning / Ooh, ooh, then youcome down
2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:
In 1967, a Shulgin compound called DOM enjoyed a brief vogue in Haight-Ashbury under the name STP, at doses several times larger than those at which Shulgin had found significant psychoactive effects, and emergency rooms saw a spike in the number of people coming in thinking they would nevercome down.
2015 June 28, “It was 20 years ago today: the year British dance music went wild”, inThe Observer[2]:
Britpop had revitalised rock, and an unprecedented explosion in dance music – sparked off by a second consecutive sunny and idyllic Glastonbury – transformed how Britain thought, listened, partied andcame down afterwards.
