come down to earth

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come down to earth (third-person singular simple present comes down to earth, present participle coming down to earth, simple past came down to earth, past participle come down to earth)

  1. (idiomatic, of an event, thing, person) To be brought back to reality; to emerge from a daydream.
    • 1981-1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
      So many good things have been happening for me, and I've just been such a happy man. I've wanted to write earlier but couldn't come down to earth long enough.

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