A nasty virus was going round the office and people were dropping like ninepins.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
go drop like ninepins — ˌgo down, ˌdrop, etc. like ˈninepins idiom (BrE, informal) to fall down or become ill/sick in great numbers • Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs. • There s a lot of flu about … Useful english dictionary
go drop like ninepins — ► go down (or drop or fall) like ninepins succumb in large numbers. Main Entry: ↑ninepins … English terms dictionary
fall like ninepins — go down/fall/drop/like ninepins phrase used for saying that a lot of people suddenly all become ill or all fail at something A nasty virus was going round the office and people were dropping like ninepins. Thesaurus: to fail, or to stop being… … Useful english dictionary
go down like ninepins — go down/fall/drop/like ninepins phrase used for saying that a lot of people suddenly all become ill or all fail at something A nasty virus was going round the office and people were dropping like ninepins. Thesaurus: to fail, or to stop being… … Useful english dictionary
go down (or drop or fall) like ninepins — Brit. succumb in large numbers. → ninepins … English new terms dictionary
go drop/fall like ninepins — ► go down (or drop or fall) like ninepins succumb in large numbers. Main Entry: ↑ninepins … English terms dictionary
go down like ninepins — ► go down (or drop or fall) like ninepins succumb in large numbers. Main Entry: ↑ninepins … English terms dictionary
go fall like ninepins — ► go down (or drop or fall) like ninepins succumb in large numbers. Main Entry: ↑ninepins … English terms dictionary
ninepins — nine|pins [ˈnaınˌpınz] n [U] 1.) a game in which you roll a ball at nine bottle shaped objects to try to hit them so that they fall 2.) drop/go down like ninepins if people or things drop like ninepins, many of them fall down or become ill or… … Dictionary of contemporary English
ninepins — UK [ˈnaɪnˌpɪnz] / US noun [uncountable] the game of skittles • go down/fall/drop like ninepins used for saying that a lot of people suddenly all become ill or all fail at something A nasty virus was going round the office and people were dropping … English dictionary
