(idiomatic) A reprimand or rarely, a thrashing.

To live so as to subdue or refute. / To get used to something shameful.

Intended to be done, used, consumed etc. while sitting.

An act of sitting down, especially with other people in some form of social exchange. / A sit-in, a protest of civil disobedience by people sitting and refusing to move.

(transitive, of an object that can be raised or lowered) To lower by winding, as with a crank or windlass. / (transitive, of a device with a mainspring) To unwind.

simple past tense and past participle of water down

Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie. / (idiomatic) Serious; staid; businesslike. / (idiomatic) Conservative; conventional; unimaginative.

A shirt with a button-down collar

(idiomatic) without much effort; easily / (idiomatic) without question; undoubtedly / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hands, down.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hand down