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What (who) is mired down - definition
SINGLE
Down down; Down Down (song); Down Down (Status Quo song)
mired down
(esp. AE) see mired
Plumulaceous
![Like many [[precocial]] hatchlings, domestic [[chicken]]s are already covered with a coat of downy feathers when they hatch.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chick.jpg?width=200 "Like many [[precocial]] hatchlings, domestic [[chicken]]s are already covered with a coat of downy feathers when they hatch.")
![A female [[common eider]] sits on her nest, surrounded by down feathers.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eider.a.duvet4.jpg?width=200 "A female [[common eider]] sits on her nest, surrounded by down feathers.")
![Body down feathers, like these exposed on this adult male [[budgerigar]]'s back, lie underneath the contour feathers and help to insulate birds against heat loss.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melopsittacus undulatus - male pet preening.jpg?width=200 "Body down feathers, like these exposed on this adult male [[budgerigar]]'s back, lie underneath the contour feathers and help to insulate birds against heat loss.")
SOFT, FINE FEATHER, SOMETIMES UNDER LARGER FEATHERS
Powder down; Bird down; Duck down; Down feathers; Down (feather); Neoptile; Neossoptile; Nessoptile; Feather dust; Natal down; Body down; Plumaceous; Powderdown; Powder-down feather; Pulviplume; Plumule (zoology); Goose down; Plumulaceous feather; Plumulaceous
·adj Downy; bearing down.
Down feather
SOFT, FINE FEATHER, SOMETIMES UNDER LARGER FEATHERS
Powder down; Bird down; Duck down; Down feathers; Down (feather); Neoptile; Neossoptile; Nessoptile; Feather dust; Natal down; Body down; Plumaceous; Powderdown; Powder-down feather; Pulviplume; Plumule (zoology); Goose down; Plumulaceous feather; Plumulaceous
The down of birds is a layer of fine feathers found under the tougher exterior feathers. Very young birds are clad only in down.
Wikipedia
Down Down
"Down Down" is a song by English rock band Status Quo. Written by Francis Rossi and Bob Young and produced by Status Quo, "Down Down" was Status Quo's only number one single on the UK Singles Chart. The single spent a week at the top of the chart in January 1975. It was released on 29 November 1974 on the Vertigo label, paired with the B-side song "Nightride". Both songs came from the album On the Level, which had yet to be released. The album version lasts 5 minutes and 24 seconds, whilst the single version is 3 minutes and 49 seconds.
Examples of use of mired down
1. Fallon says he doesn‘t expect U.S. troops to be mired down in Iraq for decades.
2. Sometimes we get mired down with minutia and lose sight of what we really need to be doing.
3. Failure to secure the Olympics would once again focus the city on the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, an effort that has become mired down.
4. With an unflagging stream of petrodollars pouring in, and with Western countries mired down in various problems, Russia is experiencing an exaggerated feeling of self–confidence.
5. Israel‘s technological edge, in a small area like Gaza, is great as long as it does not get mired down in the refugee camps and cities.