come down with

English

come down with (third-person singular simple present comes down with, present participle coming down with, simple past came down with, past participle come down with)

To contract or get (an illness); to show symptoms of.
With a scratchy throat and a cough, it feels like I'm coming down with a cold.
- 1917 April 21, George Draper, “Acute Poliomyelitis: Early Diagnosis and Serum Therapy”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 68, number 16, Chicago, Ill., →DOI, page 1153:
  It is further reported that when tremendously large doses of virus are given intravenously, from 250 to 500 c.c., the animals come down with the disease.
To lay down (money) in payment; to pay.
- 2011, Charley Rosen, The Wizard of Odds:
  So I diddled around, then came down with the money, and we were finally ready to roll.

to show symptoms of an illness