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Phrase(s): drop off (to sleep)
Fig. to go to sleep without difficulty; to fall asleep. • I sat in the warm room for five minutes, and then I dropped off to sleep. • After I’ve eaten dinner, I can drop off with no trouble at all., Phrase(s): drop someone or something off (some place)
1. Lit. to let someone or a group out of a vehicle at a particular place; to deliver someone or something some place. • Let’s drop these shirts off at the cleaners. • Let’s drop off Tom and Jerry at the hamburger joint. 2. Fig. to give someone or a group a ride to some place. • Can I drop you off somewhere in town? • I dropped off the kids at the party., Phrase(s): drop someone or something off
Go to drop someone or something off something., Phrase(s): 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., Phrase(s): drop someone or something off something [and] drop someone or something off
to let someone or something fall from something; to make someone or something fall from something. • They dropped the feather off the top of the building. • Jake dropped off a feather and it fell to the ground.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Fall asleep, as in When I looked at Grandma, she had dropped off. [Early 1800s] 2. Decrease; also, become less frequent. For example, Sales have dropped off markedly, or Over the year her visits dropped off. [Early 1800s] 3. Deliver, unload, as in Bill dropped off the package at the office. 4. Die, as in He is so ill he could drop off any time. [Early 1800s]
American Heritage Idioms