touch down

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to make contact with the ground as it lands

   We're just going to touch down while we fix the system.

   We touch down there in ten minutes

In the movies · 8

• Dom I ll be touching down five klicks westFast X2023
• We touch down there in ten minutesGodzilla: King of the Monsters2019
• We're touching down in one minute.Black Widow2021
• Kill her when you touch down.Ghosted2023
• We're just going to touch down while we fix the system.Come from Away2021
• Well, it's brilliant. They touch down on the reservoirs.The Tuxedo2002
• ...then lean forward slightly and touch back down.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone2001
• Both men know, once the plane touches down in El Segundo,Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019

Learn it in full scenes

• Come from Away2021
  • Gander Learns of the Emergency
  • Planes Land Unexpectedly in Gander
  • Gander Declares a State of Emergency

From the same entry

• be touched with
• not touch with a bargepole
• touch base
• touch bottom
• touch wood
• strike a chord
• touch your forelock
• not harm a hair of head
• hit a nerve
• catch on the raw
• touch for
• touch off