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Mr. Tom Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

The dinner went down a treat.

Hi

Is this sentence natural?

[meaning the dinner was/proved to be very tasty]

The dinner went down a treat. 

Thanks,

Tom
  

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t=1125670 Apparently it means that the matter/object turned out to be quite popular with the general public, and obviously the expression originated from a tv show(most likely reality show in my guess)

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  • t=1125670 Apparently it means that the matter/object turned out to be quite popular with the general public, and obviously the expression originated from a tv show(most likely reality show in my guess)
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http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1125670

Apparently it means that the matter/object turned out to be quite popular with the general public, and obviously the expression originated from a tv show(most likely reality show in my guess)
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It can mean that the thing that went down a treat turned out to be popular, but it is frequently used of a specific group of people, not the general public. When used of something that can be eaten or drunk, it can mean that the consumption turned out to be very pleasant/easy.

I don't know where the expression came from, but it is not 'obviously' from a TV show,
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fivejedjonIt can mean that the thing that went down a treat turned out to be popular, but it is frequently used of a specific group of people, not the general public. When used of somthing that can be eaten or drunk, it can mean that the consumption turned out to be very pleasant/easy.I don't know ehere the expression came from, but it is not 'obviously' from a TV show,
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I imagine so, since the British National Corpus has 25 citations for 'Go + 'down a treat', while the much larger Corpus of Contemporary American English has only one.
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