Stay down phrase
To continue staying underwater.
Kids want to stay down a little long.
Staying down for too long will make your skin fall off.
To not getting up from the ground after getting knocked down.
After getting a slight punch to the face, the fighter stayed down as if he was acting.
He stayed down because he felt his opponent was too powerful.
To continue lying prostrate on the ground; to keep one's body in squatting or sitting position.
"Stay down!" The police shouted at the theft.
Stay down now! Otherwise, I will shoot you.
(Of food) To stay in your stomach and not make you vomit.
Luckily! The rare beef steak stayed down.
Strange food is normally not gonna stay down for very long in me.
The verb "stay" must be conjugated according to its tense.
In meaning 2,3 the verb "stay" is usually in the imperative.
The origin of this phrase is not clear.
People tend to like forbidden or illegal things just because they are forbidden or illegal.
He must have believed that stolen fruit is the sweetest, and he, therefore, cheated on his partner.