Teleostomi  +  519043 Mon, 26 May 08 11:48 AM Tell me what "break down" exactly means in the following quote? Does it literally mean "destroy"? [i second that... however, when working on the road, and living out of hotels which may or may not provide wifi, consoles are a life saver especially when we can get adjoining rooms and take a couple other tvs from our other rooms for our crew and link up and get busy... definitely more portable than my desktop, however i do bring it with me from time to time... i am going to break down and get a laptop...] Teleostomi Joined on Sat, Jun 10 2006 Regular Member 557

	optilang  +  519048 Mon, 26 May 08 12:01 PM Teleostomi “ i am going to break down and get a laptop.”   It means I am going to (finally) give in and get a laptop - in other words he/she has been resisting buying one  optilang Joined on Tue, May 13 2008 Poland Senior Member 2,521 OptiNative British English Speaker Wherever I may roam, I'm still a Londoner.

	CalifJim  +  519367 Tue, 27 May 08 01:37 AM Teleostomi “i am going to break down and get a laptop..” break down = give in, stop resisting, yield to necessity "(finally) break down and ..." is finally to do something after knowing for a long time that it probably should be done or that it will have to be done eventually. CJ  CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member 22,389 "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche

	optilang  +  519440 Tue, 27 May 08 05:38 AM I see 'finally' here as meaning  after all/ after everything eventually to me implies that the eventual outcome has some certainty  -  but I could be wrong  optilang