Above and Down from

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Above adverb - To or in a higher place.

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Down from is an antonym for above.

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Above is an antonym for down from in lower topic.

While she does fall down from the sky, she manages to stop herself just before she hits him, and instead is on all fours just above him.

Source: Light Novel / Ore No Nounai Sentakushi Ga Gakuen Love Come O Zenryoku De Jama Shiteiru
Hollywood Tactics: Dredd's room clearing tactics (standing in a doorway and dropping down from a storey above into an apartment full of armed thugs) would get him killed in Real Life.

Source: Film / Judge Dredd
After Calvin attempts to drink a glass of water upside-down from the far side of the glass, an amused Hobbes makes the above quote.

Source: Hiccup Hijinks

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