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fall off

verb

  1. to drop unintentionally to the ground from (a high object, bicycle, etc), esp after losing one's balance
  2. adverb to diminish in size, intensity, etc; decline or weaken

    business fell off after Christmas

  3. adverb nautical to allow or cause a vessel to sail downwind of her former heading
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a decline or drop
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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"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."

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"I wouldn't even call it a slippery slope," she says "Canada has fallen off a cliff."

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In the European Union they fell off a cliff in 2024, to 7,517 vehicle registrations from 15,130 the year before.

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He described another incident a year later when he alleged Gjert kicked him in the stomach after he fell off a scooter.

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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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