down to

See also: downto

English

Preposition

down to

  1. ready for
  2. with no one/nothing remaining but
  3. Due to.
    It's down to me, the way she talks when she's spoken to / Down to me, the change has come, she's under my thumb.
    • 2005, Stel Pavlou, Decipher:
      The intermittent signal dropout was down to a faulty connection which he'd fixed in seconds.
    • 2011 May 16, James Mitchell Crow, “First signs of ozone-hole recovery spotted”, in Nature:
      That difficulty is down to significant natural variations in average Antarctic stratospheric springtime ozone levels from year to year

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