(informal, UK, idiom) To stop work, especially when taking industrial action.
(informal, UK, idiom) To stop work, especially when taking industrial action.
In Coventry, 300 GMB members plan to down tools over long hours, bad management and a 50p-an-hour pay rise[.]
“AMERICA. 🇺🇸 DOWN TOOLS BEFORE THEY’RE TAKEN AWAY.”
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
(informal, intransitive) To duck or take cover, usually to avoid harm. Commonly used as a caution or warning in the imperative.
(idiomatic, transitive) To insult, belittle, or demean.
(intransitive, British) To reduce intensity of an activity.
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(transitive) To swallow (something).