down for the count

“It’s something I grew up with, so I enjoy it. I hadn’t had a chance to do it this winter. I had my shoulder operated on in November and that’s kind of had me down for the count. I look forward snowboarding again, whenever I can.”

Concern grew that the fabulous invalid, as the theater has long been dubbed, might be down for the count.

They, along with an American electorate that is proving again and again that it supports abortion’s legality, have resoundingly responded to the Supreme Court by saying, as one provider in an embattled state put it to us, “we’re definitely not down for the count.”

“I know I’m going to be down for the count for about a month, and that’s going to bother the hell out of me,” she said, impatient with the very prospect of having to take recovery time.

It turned out he wasn’t quite down for the count.