Get down
Get down verb - To come down from something (as a vehicle).
Both terms in one sentence
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It might be better to say that Xykon started out as a parody Evil Overlord, but it gradually became apparent that goofy as he can be, when you get down to it he's the real deal and every bit as dangerous as you'd expect an Evil Overlord to be.
Source: Evil Overlord -
Maybe they think that the old bed is too boring, maybe they don't have a convenient bed and have to do it where they can, maybe they're just so eager to get started that they get down to business wherever they find themselves.
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It is possible that the phrase "Get down with your bad self" has never been uttered without irony in real life, but if it was, it was certainly many years prior to the mid to late '90s, which is when the phrase started being uttered by any sitcom character that was trying to sound cool.
Source: Two Decades Behind
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Started and Get down. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/get_down/started
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