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Phrasal verb 'get down' Can i use phrasal verb 'get down' with the meaning to disappoint someone? For example 'I wish, I didn't get my mother down on her birthday.' or maybe there is a better word to express this?
Mar 3, 2020 1:14 PM
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It's a little unusual. We wouldn't normally use 'get down' in this way. One of the possible ways to use this phrasal verb is to use it to replace 'feel sad'. For example, "Whenever I think about all the problems in the world I get down." It is informal. Like most phrasal verbs. However, generally this is a feeling which is produced by yourself, not something you do to someone else. One exception is that you do often hear people saying "I don't want to get you down, but...". You might have been thinking of the phrasal verb "let down" which means to disappoint/not fulfil a promise? If not, then using 'make sad/unhappy' is best
March 3, 2020
can i say "'I wish, I didn't get my mother feel down on her birthday" ?
March 3, 2020
Possibly: 'It's really getting me down', 'It's got me down', but as S.A Abdulqader says below, 'let down' is probably the phrasal verb you are looking for.
March 3, 2020
Let down. I wish I didn't let my mother down. Get down means to go down or drop physically .
March 3, 2020
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