down tools

English

Verb

down tools (third-person singular simple present downs tools, present participle downing tools, simple past and past participle downed tools)

(informal, Britain) To stop work, especially when taking industrial action.
- 2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in Rail, page 51:
  But when railway workers downed tools almost a year later, on September 26 1919, Britain was in many ways still a country at war.

References

“down tools” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.

单词	down tools
释义	down tools English Verb down tools (third-person singular simple present downs tools, present participle downing tools, simple past and past participle downed tools) (informal, Britain) To stop work, especially when taking industrial action. 2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in Rail, page 51: But when railway workers downed tools almost a year later, on September 26 1919, Britain was in many ways still a country at war. References “down tools” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.
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