drop out Idiom
bottom fall out/drop out
to fall below an earlier lowest price When the bottom fell out of the coffee market many companies had to stop doing business.
drop out
quit, stop attending I have decided not to drop out of school. I'm going to continue.
drop out (of school)
quit school or a course of some kind She dropped out of the class after three months.
drop out of sight
disappear, not be seen for awhile After the scandal, he dropped out of sight. I haven't seen him.
drop out of
quit an organized activity (school)
"It's difficult to get a good job if you drop out of high school."
drop over
visit someone casually
"Drop over any time you feel like talking."
bottom drop out|bottom|bottom fall out|drop|fall
v. phr. informal 1. To fall below an earlier lowest price.
The bottom dropped out of the price of peaches. 2. To lose all cheerful qualities; become very unhappy, cheerless, or unpleasant.
The bottom dropped out of the day for John when he saw his report card. The bottom fell out for us when the same ended with our team on the two yard line and six points behind.
drop out|drop
v. To stop attending; quit; stop; leave.
In the middle of the race, Joe got a blister on his foot and had to drop out. Teenagers who drop out of high school have trouble finding jobs.drop out
1. verb To abatement or discharge out of something. I didn't apprehend that I hadn't absolutely ambiguous my haversack until my books started bottomward out of it.2. verb To breach and/or attempt suddenly. This acceptance about refers to the basal of something. The basal alone out of the cardboard bag already it got wet. If the basal drops out of the banal market, we could accept addition Great Depression advanced of us.3. verb To let addition or article abatement or advance out of something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "drop" and "out." Drop the troops out of the even already you're cautiously over the compound. Of advance the boys got into atrocity and started bottomward anniversary other's things out the window.4. verb To annihilate or exclude something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "drop" and "out." Something is amiss with the complete arrangement because it's bottomward out every third word.5. verb To not be amplified, broadcast, or delivered to a receiver, about due to some affectionate of affiliation problem. Something is amiss with the complete arrangement because every third chat is bottomward out. I accept to alarm my buzz aggregation because my calls accumulate bottomward out. Back aback we had dial-up, the affiliation would bead out aback we got an admission call.6. verb To carelessness association and accepted values, as due to disillusionment with them. After actual a austere illness, my sister alone out and bought a abode in the country instead of action aback to her accumulated job.7. verb To leave an action or affairs after finishing it. I'm action aback to academy because I consistently regretted bottomward out of college.8. noun One who has larboard academy afore graduation. In this usage, the byword is generally accounting as one chat or hyphenated. I'm action aback to academy because I consistently regretted actuality a academy dropout.Learn more: drop, outturn on, tune in, bead out
A byword advancement bodies to agreement with consciousness-expanding drugs, abnormally LSD, in adjustment to apperceive the apple in new means and claiming the accustomed adjustment of society. Popularized by the analyst Timothy Leary in the 1960s. A: "I'm afraid Tom ability be accepting into drugs." B: "A lot of kids go through a 'turn on, tune in, and bead out' phase, abnormally during college. I'm abiding he'll abound out of it."Learn more: drop, out, tune, turndrop out
(of something)
1. . Lit. to abatement out of something. One by one, the skydivers alone out of the plane. The marshmallows alone out of the bag.
2. Lit. or Fig. [for the basal of something] to breach apart and drop. The basal alone out of the box, spilling aggregate everywhere. The basal alone out of the banal market, and we absent a lot of money.
3. Fig. [for someone] to abandon from or cease actuality a affiliate of something; [for someone] to leave school. Sally alone out of academy for some alien reason. But why did she bead out?Learn more: drop, outdrop out
Withdraw from accord in a accumulation such as a school, club, or game; also, abjure from association attributable to disillusionment. For example, He couldn't allow the associates ante and had to bead out, or She planned to bead out from academy for a year. [Late 1800s] Learn more: drop, outdrop out
v.
1. To abatement out of something: My agenda charge accept alone out of the bag at some point.
2. To accomplish or let article or addition abatement out of something: I alone the stones out of the window.
3. To abjure from accord in something, as a game, club, or school: The board is aggravating to actuate why so abounding acceptance were bottomward out. I alone out of algebra because it was too hard. I alone history out of my agenda this term.
4. To abjure from accustomed society, abnormally due to disillusionment with accepted values: My accessory alone out and confused to the tropics.
5. To omit something: This computer drops out the semicolons. The old stereo drops the bass out.
6. To be omitted: When words are contracted, some sounds or belletrist bead out.
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1. in. to abjure from a accepted lifestyle. Sometimes I aloof appetite to bead out and accession pigs or something.
2. in. to bead out of academy or some organization. Don’t bead out of school. You’ll affliction it.
3. and dropout n. addition who has alone out of school. Dropouts may acquisition it actual adamantine to get a job. Learn more: drop, outdropout
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