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| 词汇 | be dropping like flies |
| 释义 | Idiom be dropping like flies if people are dropping like flies, large numbers of them are dying or becoming ill or injured within a short period of time.The heat was overwhelming and people were dropping like flies. be dropping like fliesTo be succumbing to a particular problem, often an illness. This phrase is typically only used when more than one person has been adversely affected. Now that the flu is going through our school, people are dropping like flies. be dropping like flies1. If people are dropping like flies, large numbers of them are dying within a short period of time. Actors his age - many of them friends - are dropping like flies. 2. If large numbers of similar things are dropping like flies, they are all failing within a short period of time. While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits. |
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