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Originally Posted by BobK  Coda:
"Trickled down" is a strong collocation. But the main idea of a ledge is that it's horizontal. So neither "The raindrops trickled along the glass" nor "The raindrops trickled down the ledge" sounds quite right.
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Thanks, Bob, for the further explanation.
It seems to me that
along refers to
along something that is horizontal while
down something that is vertical, right?