亚洲网紅露点

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keel over

verb

  1. to turn upside down; capsize
  2. informal.
    intr to collapse suddenly
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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]
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When she was 13 years old, Ms Thomas said she remembered "keeling over in agony" at the back of the classroom.

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"When I'm older, when the body's keeled over a bit, I expect I'll pick up where I left off," he said.

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They kiss, keel over, profess their love, resist their exploitation.

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You have to do comparisons and say, 鈥業 need more space to sing so I don鈥檛 just keel over.鈥

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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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