Advertisement
Advertisement
the lowdown on
Discover More
Idioms and Phrases
The whole truth about something, as in We're waiting to hear the lowdown on what happened after we left . This term uses lowdown in the sense of “the basic or fundamental part.” [ Slang ; early 1900s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse