drop away
Britishverb
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"I had this sinking feeling, and all hope just dropped away," she says.
From BBC
“The world begins to drop away, there is a rhythm with your arms and legs, you’re in nature and it is an experience of movement,” he says.
From Washington Post
Britain's 2018 winner Geraint Thomas, dropped away early on the stage.
From BBC
In the foreword to “Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary,” the fiction writer Danielle Evans described Collins as “a master of the moments when the interior becomes the exterior, when all pretense drops away.”
From New York Times
But those kinds of rules will probably start dropping away as the E.U. adapts its rules to diminishing fears that vaccinated travelers could still spread the virus.
From Washington Post
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