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phrasal verb go down with / get down with

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00I know that "go down with disease" means "to catch an illness. Does "get down with.." mean exactly the same?02br
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0Neither 01i00'go down with'02i00 nor01i00 'get down with'02i00 sounds native to me; I only know 01i01b00'come02b00 down with a disease'02i00.0-
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0 Well, "go down with.." I found in my dictionary and it means "to become ill". I'm just not sure about the second phrasal.0-
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01font00"go down with.." I found in my dictionary and it means "to become ill".02font00 Yes, eg He went down with the flu. It's usually just used for minor illnesses.02br
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01font00I'm just not sure about the second phrasal. 02font00"Get down with the Rollin
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0 I've found in my dictionaries:02br
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01b00go down with something 02b00 phrasal verb02br
00to become ill, especially with an infectious disease:02br
01i00Half the team had gone down with flu/malaria.02i02br
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01b00come down with something 02b00 phrasal verb02br
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0While I've heard someone say that are "down with" an illness (He's down with the flu, as stated above) it usually refers to how it affects the person - he's in bed, out of commission, lying 01i00down02i00 flat in bed.02br
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00I can honestly say I've never heard it used as "Half the team had gone down with the flu." 0-
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10I can honestly say I've never heard it used as "Half the team had gone down with the flu." 12br
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10This sentence is from 00Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Maybe this phrasal verb is outdated/outmoded or used only in BrE. I can only speculate 05002br
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I need to understand the meaning of "going down" in the following context (song):

And I'm goin' down for the last time
I'm goin' down for the last time
Goin' down, out of my mind
I'm nearly out of my mind


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