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Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006"The baseball game went down already"?
Hi, Does the following sentence mean the baseball game ended? "The baseball game went down already." Thanks! -- DJ Not a native speaker of English > Does the following sentence mean the baseball game ended? > > "The baseball game went down already." That's a mighty strange way to put it, but I don't see any other meaning for it. It might be something a non-NES might say.  SignatureSkitt (in Hayward, California) http://www.geocities.com/opus731/ >Hi, > >Does the following sentence mean the baseball game ended? > >"The baseball game went down already." I wouldn't recognize it as "normal". "Gone down", though, is used to mean "over" or "started" (among other things) as in "That's already gone down". This is a guess - emphasis on "guess" - but I'd attribute that to gambling. Once a bet has gone down, you can't take it back. If you are betting on a game, normally you can't place a bet on the game after it has started. The game has "gone down", so no bet can be "put down". SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL > Hi, > Does the following sentence mean the baseball game ended? > "The baseball game went down already." This is informal American English. It means the game was completed sometime in the past, possibly not the very recent past. A: "I'm looking forward to seeing your team play against the Giants." B: "The baseball game went down already." A: "Really?" B: "Yes, it was (yesterday/last Wednesday/over two hours ago)." A: "Who won?" B: "We did." SignatureLars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/> <http://myspace.com/larseighner> All rights left. All lefts reserved. All reserves removed. All removes right. Thank you all for your replies! I'm surprised to know it is informal American English. I'm guessing it's not very commonly known... -- DJ > Thank you all for your replies! > > I'm surprised to know it is informal American English. I'm guessing it's > not very commonly known... I don't know how to determine that. Myself, I associate it with musicians' slang, but I don't know if it was ever limited to that. Googling "concert went down" turns up this sort of thing: But that was where the concert went down and The concert went down on July 30, 2003 The concert went down on April 9 and was deemed a success There are also results like "the concert went down well with..." but that's a different expression. SignatureBest -- Donna Richoux <snipped> It's always good to have people responding to my post. Thanks! > > Thank you all for your replies! > > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > There are also results like "the concert went down well with..." but > that's a different expression. 274,000 Google hits for "what went down". The majority of the first two pages seem to have the slang meaning "happened" or "took place" for "went down", e.g., "Corley Speaks out on What Went Down in Puerto Rico QUESTION: Don King has filed a protest on your behalf for what went down last Saturday night, can you get into that a little bit more?" I consider it a common slang expression dating as far back as my memory of slang (the '70s). There may be some connotation of complexity or mysteriousness. You can find out what went down in a politician's reversal of opinion, but not in a letter's disappearance. SignatureJerry Friedman > I consider it a common slang expression dating as far back as my memory Thanks! -- DJ > > > Thank you all for your replies! > > > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > mysteriousness. You can find out what went down in a politician's > reversal of opinion, but not in a letter's disappearance. "...stop, children, what's that sound?" It was part of my sixties slang, along with splitting scenes, various qualities of vibes, etc, etc. And here we are again: everybody better look what's going down, since there really is a man with a gun over there... SignatureMike. |
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