phrasal verb · informal
come down with
/kʌm daʊn wɪð/come·DOWN·with
speakingtask2
to start to suffer from an illness (e.g. a cold or flu)
Examples
“I think I'm coming down with a cold; I have a sore throat.”
“Several students came down with the flu after the school trip.”
“He came down with food poisoning and missed the meeting.”
Band 8 sentence
“She must have come down with something on the plane; she’s been coughing since yesterday.”
Collocations
- come down with a cold
- come down with the flu
Word family
come down with phrasal verbcame down with past simplecoming down with continuous/gerund
Common mistakes
I came down the flu.→I came down with the flu.
I came up with the flu.→I came down with the flu.
Say it for a higher band
5get sick→6catch→7+come down with
Synonyms
catch (an illness)
Easily confused
catch (an illness)
“I think I'm catching a cold.”
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