drop off

drop off
drop off
1. Lit. [for a part of something] to break away and fall off. •

The car's bumper just dropped off—honest.

I lifted boxes until I thought my arms would drop off.

2. Fig. to decline. •

Attendance at the meetings dropped off after Martin became president.

Spending dropped off as the recession became worse.

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{v.} 1. To take (someone or something) part of the way you are going. * /Joe asked Mrs. Jones to drop him off at the library on her way downtown./ 2. To go to sleep. * /Jimmy was thinking of his birthday party as he dropped off to sleep./ 3. To die. * /The patient dropped off in his sleep./ 4. or[fall off] To become less. * /Business picked up in the stores during December, but dropped off again after Christmas./ Contrast PICK UP(14).

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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