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Idiom

down cellar

Meaning

Downstairs; the opposite of upstairs.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“Please take these old boxes down cellar.”

“The laundry room is down cellar, so you need to walk down the stairs.”

“He kept his collection of vintage wines stored safely down cellar, away from the heat of the summer sun.”

Examples

simple

“Please take these old boxes down cellar.”

contextual

“The laundry room is down cellar, so you need to walk down the stairs.”

complex

“He kept his collection of vintage wines stored safely down cellar, away from the heat of the summer sun.”

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