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JCDenton Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

Double down low?

Hi Guys,

damn idioms..:-((. I have a situation, where two guys are talking with each other and one of them said:

We have to deal with it very carefully, secrecy is very important. Double down low.

Please does someone know, what "Double down low" means?

thank you in advance.

JCD.
  

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:-((. I have a situation, where two guys are talking with each other and one of them said: We have to deal with it very carefully, secrecy is very important. Double down low .

  • :-((.
  • I have a situation, where two guys are talking with each other and one of them said: We have to deal with it very carefully, secrecy is very important.
  • Double down low .
  • Please does someone know, what "Double down low" means?
  • I've never heard this.
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Hi,

**** idioms..:-((. I have a situation, where two guys are talking with each other and one of them said:

We have to deal with it very carefully, secrecy is very important. Double down low.

Please does someone know, what "Double down low" means?

I've nev
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Thank you Clive,

Perfect match would be, if "Double down low" means: ".....secrecy is very important. So think twice, before you'll do something....".

or something like that...I really don't know..:-((

have a nice day

JCD
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Yeah,

so I looked at the several pages on the internet, which contains this idiom "double down low"

and it seems it is term from the sport....like here:

(from the www page about basketball...)

....That depends on their guards. If they double down low, we need to get movement from our guards. (Mike Wilkinson and Tucker) are going to draw attentio
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I really don't know what the meaning is in the original context, but I don't think it has anything to do with the basketball references. In basketball, to "double" means to have two of your players guarding a single player from the other team, and "down low" means (I think) close to the basket. At least in the basketball context, it definitely does not mean "bend over low." I suppose it
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I thought it was a term from poker.

CJ
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And what does it mean in poker?
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I have no idea. Maybe it's not a term from poker. It's just that some poker neurons fire when the double down neurons fire. Could be a short circuit!
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Hi,

I found on the internet that "Double down low" means, that the poker player has doubled his jackpot, because he believes, that he has a good cards...or something like that.

To be frank, I have no idea why the character in the movie, which I saw last week, used this phrase....I have translate it like I said: ..secrecy is very important, ."be doubly carefull"...Otherwise I have
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To keep something on the "down low" means to keep it secret. So "double down low" must be really secret. www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=keep+it+on+the+down+low

For those of us of a certain age, we'll remember the phrase "double secret probation" from a ce

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