I've searched a lot and found out that down with as a slang phrase means "being in an agreement with something". On the other hand, I know that it also means "death upon something".
So in a sentence like
Down with war!
how am I supposed to know which one of these meanings is applied?
Has this term changed its meaning with time?
Best Answer
This is a simple application of the UP/DOWN Metaphor frame.
As it says in the link above: