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Jigneshbharati Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

A little down

LIVE! We had a little down: Rahul on the Cong's spectacular UP defeat
LIVE! We had a little down: Rahul on the Cong's spectacular UP defeat - Rediff.com India News
What is the grammatical form and function of "a little down"?
Is it an idiom?
  

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Jigneshbharati We had a little down It is not an idiom. It means that they had a slight failure. "

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  • Jigneshbharati We had a little down It is not an idiom.
  • It means that they had a slight failure.
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JigneshbharatiWe had a little down

It is not an idiom. It means that they had a slight failure. If you read the article, you can see that Rahul coined the phrase from a common idiomatic phrase, 'ups and downs':

Rahul said, "In opposition, you go through ups and downs, we had a little down."

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