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Phrase(s): come down with something to become or to be sick with some illness. • Susan came down with a bad cold and had to cancel her trip. • I didn’t go to work because I came down with the flu.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Become ill with, as in The whole family came down with the flu. [Late 1800s]
American Heritage Idioms