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fall off
verb
- to drop unintentionally to the ground from (a high object, bicycle, etc), esp after losing one's balance
- adverb to diminish in size, intensity, etc; decline or weaken
business fell off after Christmas
- adverb nautical to allow or cause a vessel to sail downwind of her former heading
noun
- a decline or drop
Idioms and Phrases
see fall away .Example Sentences
"It may be that staff didn't attach a card or tag immediately, or that it simply fell off and was put back on the wrong baby or on the wrong crib."
"I wouldn't even call it a slippery slope," she says "Canada has fallen off a cliff."
In the European Union they fell off a cliff in 2024, to 7,517 vehicle registrations from 15,130 the year before.
He described another incident a year later when he alleged Gjert kicked him in the stomach after he fell off a scooter.
Guardiola has cut a tortured, agonised figure for most of a campaign in which the form of his Manchester City side fell off a cliff after claiming a historic four successive Premier League titles.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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