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come down with something

to become or to be sick with some illness. Susan came down with a bad cold and had to cancel her trip. I didn't go to work because I came down with the flu.

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come down with something

to become ill with a disease Twenty-two pupils came down with flu.

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come down with

Become ill with, as in The whole family came down with the flu. [Late 1800s]

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come down with

To become sick with (an illness): came down with the flu.

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