down the river
idiom
: in the same direction as the river is flowing
Large boats came down the river.
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For an evening activity, guests can join the JAO Ping River Cruise, a fun, multi-course dinner cruise down the river.
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Sherrie Nachman, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
The film itself follows Captain Willard’s journey down the river to track down the defecting Colonel Kurtz.
—Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2025
Everywhere here seems just pastorally perfect, right down to the clouds of bright-blue butterflies and the lines of fluffy ducklings paddling down the river.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Researchers suspect some of the sediment that still makes it down the river is spilling into Breton Sound, thanks to floods over the past dozen years that punched new holes in the eastern bank of the lower Mississippi (see sidebar, below).
—Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 9 Jan. 2025
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Sherrie Nachman, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
The film itself follows Captain Willard’s journey down the river to track down the defecting Colonel Kurtz.
—Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2025
Everywhere here seems just pastorally perfect, right down to the clouds of bright-blue butterflies and the lines of fluffy ducklings paddling down the river.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Researchers suspect some of the sediment that still makes it down the river is spilling into Breton Sound, thanks to floods over the past dozen years that punched new holes in the eastern bank of the lower Mississippi (see sidebar, below).
—Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Down the river.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/down%20the%20river. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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