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keel over
verb
- to turn upside down; capsize
- informal.intr to collapse suddenly
Idioms and Phrases
Collapse, as if in a faint; also, faint. For example, When she heard the awful news, she keeled over . This term alludes to a vessel rolling on its keel and capsizing. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
When she was 13 years old, Ms Thomas said she remembered "keeling over in agony" at the back of the classroom.
"When I'm older, when the body's keeled over a bit, I expect I'll pick up where I left off," he said.
They kiss, keel over, profess their love, resist their exploitation.
You have to do comparisons and say, 鈥業 need more space to sing so I don鈥檛 just keel over.鈥
鈥淚鈥檓 paying through the nose. Every day, I鈥檓 seeing another bill, and I鈥檓 about to keel over.鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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