Sent-down youth — (zh stp |t=下鄉青年 |s=下乡青年 |p=xiàxiāng qīngnián) refers to a privileged urban youth who was sent to the mountain or farming areas to learn traditional skills during the late 1960s and early 1970s under China s Down to the Countryside Movement … Wikipedia
Down to the Countryside Movement — Photo from 1968. 200,000 youth in Shenyang were recruited to the countryside to live and work Traditional Chinese 上山下鄉運動 … Wikipedia
down — to prison The place where the judge sends you after sentencing, the cells often being situated in the cellar of the courthouse: In all her nineteen years she had never once been permitted to visit her father, who had been sent down… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
down — I. /daʊn / (say down) adverb 1. from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; into or in a lower position or condition. 2. on or to the ground. 3. to a point of submission, inactivity, etc. 4. to or in a position spoken of as lower, as… …
sent up — adj American imprisoned. The American version of sent down. Sent up has been in use since the late 19th century; it may be derived from the archaic slang sense of upriver as imprisoned. In Britain, to be sent up is to be imitated in a parodic… … Contemporary slang
Down GAA — Irish: An Dún Province: Ulster Nickname(s): The Mournemen (football) The Ardsmen (hurling) … Wikipedia
Down the Road (song) — Down the Road Single by Mac McAnally from the album Simple Life Released … Wikipedia
Down Rodeo — Single by Rage Against the Machine from the album Evil Empire Released 16 … Wikipedia
Down by the Riverside (film) — Down by the Riverside Directed by Brad Davison Marama Killen Produced by Brad Davison Marama Killen Written by Brad Davison Marama Killen Joe Hitchcock Starring … Wikipedia
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom — … Wikipedia