down to adj.1
alert to, aware of, ‘fly’.
![]() | Merry Fellow’s Companion 28: ‘Stagging, my lord;why you see, was down upon him’. | |
![]() | Essays on Irish Bulls 138: ‘Up to him!’ says his lordship, ‘what do you mean by being up to him?’ ‘Mean, my lord! why, I was down upon him’. | |
![]() | Boxiana I 4: They are not down to the ‘Sublime and Beautiful’ or up to the ‘Diversions of Purley’. | |
![]() | Real Life in London I 63: No man was better up to the rigs of the town; no one better down to the manoeuvres of the flats, and sharps. | |
![]() | New Sprees of London 3: Nanty palary the rumcull of the Casey is [...] quisby in the nut, not fly, not up to the moves, not down to the dodges, not awake, can't tumble to the slums, not wido to the slangs. | |
![]() | Bell’s Life in Sydney 26 Aug. 1/2: [N]ot being what the young scapegrace Rugbinian would call ‘down,’ or rather, ‘up’ to his slang. | |
![]() | Frank Fairlegh (1878) 40: Ya’as, you’re about right there, Mr. Lawless; you’re down to every move, I see, as usual. | |
![]() | Term of His Natural Life (1897) 248: I know these fellows [...] I’m down to all their moves. | |
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 2 May 23/1: In order to burst the thing up at once, we sternly tell the people who are advertising for ‘dry, airy cellars,’ that we’re down to what they’re up to. | |
![]() | Colonial Reformer III 86: I saw the old boy was down to every move I had made. Knowing old shot, too, in spite of his politeness and humbug. | |
![]() | Boss 122: He’s old-fashioned [...] he aint down to date. | |
![]() | Working Bullocks 82: Peter’s down to it, Red. |