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down tools (三人称単数 現在形 downs tools, 現在分詞 downing tools, 過去形および過去分詞形 downed tools)

1. (informal, Britain, idiomatic) 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.