Come a Buster.—See Buster (subs., sense 3).
Come a Cropper.—See Cropper.
Come and See your Pa, phr. (common).—An invitation to drink. For
synonyms, see Drinks.
Come Captain Armstrong.—See Captain Armstrong.
Come-Down, subs. (popular).—A fall, whether of pride or worldly
prospects; an abandonment of something for something else of less value
or moment.
Verb.—[Used either independently or in combination: e.g., To come down;
to come down handsome, or to come down with the dust, dues, dibs,
ready, oof, shiners, blunt, needful, etc.] (common).—1. To pay, i.e.,
to ‘part’; or to lay down (as in payment); to ‘fork out.’ For synonyms,
see Shell out.
1701. Steele, The Funeral, Act ii., Sc. 1. I must do according to
my orders ... except you’d come down a little deeper than you talk
of:—You don’t consider the charges I’ve been at already.
1727. Gay, Beggar’s Opera, Act iii., Sc. 1. Did he tip
handsomely?—How much did he come down with?
1842. Punch, vol. III., p. 136. ‘Bolt!’ she falter’d, ‘from the
gov’nor? Oh, my Colin, that won’t pay; He will ne’er come down, my
love, nor Help us, if we run away.’
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, ch. lxix. My uncle augurs everything
from the Begum’s generosity, and says that she will come down very
handsomely.
1889. Barrère, Sl., Jar., and Cant, (quoted in). Do you keep the
gentleman in discourse while I speak to the prisoner, and see how
he can come down.