If something gets you down, it makes you unhappy. At times when my work gets me down, I like to fantasize about being a farmer
If you get food or medicine down, you swallow it, especially with difficulty. I bit into a hefty slab of bread and cheese. When I had got it down I started talking
take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"
pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"
If you get something down, especially something that someone has just said, you write it down. The idea has been going around in my head for quite a while and now I am getting it down on paper
If you get down, you lower your body until you are sitting, kneeling, or lying on the ground. She got down on her hands and knees on the floor `Get down!' she yelled. `Somebody's shooting!'
descend, step down, get off of; (Informal) lose one's inhibitions, thoroughly enjoy oneself, let loose (especially when dancing, playing music, singing, etc.)
lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"