Normally those pills give me a boost, but last night they gave me a downer.

You don't really need to know me. I'm kind of a downer.

Geffen had never understood why such a downer of a film was being released over the holidays.

The ten-dollar bill was for eating money and the prod pole to be used when the train stopped for water in getting "downers" back on their feet.

In 1993, Farm Sanctuary produced undercover footage of downers being lifted by forklift at Hallmark, prompting introduction of a California downer cattle law the next year. Either management provided instructions to get the downers moving or was asleep at the wheel and let employees run wild — in either case, it's an indictment of management.

The two plants where I saw great reductions in downers have reduced, but not eliminated Paylean use.

In the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, a strike may be a downer or a stoppage as defined by the Department.

Cowley experienced a rash of 'downers' — short, sharp, unofficial strikes.

The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.

Downer

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