down pat

1. 1.

   understood perfectly

   “had his algebra problems down”

   Synonymsdownmastered

   Similarperfect

Questions about down pat

What does down pat mean?

down pat means "understood perfectly".

What is another word for down pat?

Close synonyms include down, mastered. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is down pat a common word?

down pat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.