The phrase "past down to" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe passing knowledge, skills, stories, or traditions from one generation to the next. For example, "The family recipe was past down to his daughter from her grandmother."
That ratio has been lower in the past: went down to five or below during the Great Depression, and again during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The number of designers who infuse their clothes with genuine wit and sophistication, who are well read and can constantly relate the present to something they know in the past, is down to a few and fading fast.
APRIL 20, 1970 I want to see why? because seeing makes me feel more alive, but at the same time it makes me feel that I could kill myself all I have written in the past boils down to these questions How much truth can a person take?
TechCrunch: Everything in Aereo's past comes down to this hearing.
And though Cadillac is evoking a bygone slogan these days, one critical difference with products of its halcyon past comes down to weight: the CTS is 7% lighter, at 3,600lbs, and 40% stiffer than the outgoing model.
They would be told they're under constant attack in a kind of constant war with the US, he says, and the "great victories" of the past were down to strong leadership, so the loss of the head in such a patriarchal system would be personally felt.
This painful ambivalence to our past extends down to me as well.
Another member, Barry Wiles, recounted a Thanksgiving dinner held at the Center this November, where two formerly feuding gang members, who had tried to kill each other in the past, sat down to break bread.
Called by Stand Up to Racism and The People's Assembly Against Austerity, the protest congregated outside BBC Broadcasting House, before weaving past Downing Street to Parliament, ending outside Westminster.
