swallow down

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swallow something down

to swallow something. Here, take this pill and swallow it down. Liz swallowed down the pill.

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That's the sort of luck you have to swallow down near the foot of the table.

Football: Saddlers denied by Swans rescue; Last-gasp equaliser denies Broadhurst's battlers a deserved victory

She rallied, though, for her final dish, managing to swallow down a morsel of rat's tail - which defeated wine expert Jilly Goolden earlier in the series - to secure a full meal for the camp.

I'm a celebrity get me out of here: THE BUSH CHUCKER; STAR FINDS YOU CAN'T KEEP A A GOOD KANGAROO TESTICLE DOWN Soap girl Sheree throws up in TV jungle challenge

However Saturday's race is a furlong and a half further than he has even been before and the pace is sure to be strong right from the start - and that will suit Grey Swallow down to the ground.

Racing: Grey in pink at Newbury

Salvation may be at hand for football's wild-child-become-old-soak in the anti-rejection drugs he'll now have to swallow down each day.

Football: Genius George's marvellous medicine; Now Best must not throw away this second chance

These lawyers and men of learning, and moneyed men, that talk so finely and gloss over matters so smoothly, to make us poor illiterate people swallow down the pill, expect to get into Congress themselves, they expect to be managers of this Constitution, and get all the power and all the money into their own hands, and they will swallow up all us little folks like the great Leviathan.

The Constitution's close call

I mean that I can't deal with my stress and watch my weight/be good because I'm too busy trying to swallow down worry.

diary of a diet; Balancing her day job and a radio show is one thing, but add dieting and there's too much for Hannah to juggle

You will dutifully swallow down the bowl of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes (my children can't even boil an egg) and exclaim with delight at the gifts they have bought or made for you, regardless of how strange or hideous they might be.

Motherhood, as someone (probably one of my children) once put it, should be it's own reward

Amos Singletary, a garrulous old farmer from Sutton, summed up the anti-Federalist case: "These lawyers and men of learning and moneyed men, that talk so finely and gloss over matters so smoothly, to make us poor illiterate people swallow down the pill, expect to get into Congress themselves, they expect to be the managers of this Constitution, and get all the power and all the money into their own hands, and then they will swallow up all of us little folks like the great Leviathan .