Timeline for What does it mean? "She is the last person who you would have down as a cheat."
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| Feb 5, 2019 at 22:48 | history | edited | Michael Harvey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 5, 2019 at 18:17 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | It did cross my mind that maybe the origin is that you have someone "down" on a mental list. I am not sure though. To have a task down (especially to have it down pat) is to have completely learned it, and I don't think you have mental notebooks there. | |
| Feb 5, 2019 at 16:50 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @WendyG: I've Got a Little List of the people who did it enough for it to reach this status. I think it might have all started with St Peter at the Pearly Gates, with his list of people he would let in (or does he actually have many separate lists of cheats, sinners, apostates, etc., to identify those he won't let in?). | |
| Feb 5, 2019 at 16:16 | comment | added | WendyG | here it is as an idiom: idioms.thefreedictionary.com/have+you+down+as | |
| Feb 5, 2019 at 16:10 | comment | added | WendyG | it is a metaphor isn't it? Fry's English Delights episode 3 will broaden your eyes to how many metaphors there are in the English language. This is a reference to having a written down list of people, I can not imagine who did it enough for it to reach this status. | |
| Feb 5, 2019 at 15:36 | history | answered | Michael Harvey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |