drop the other shoe Idiom

drop the other shoe

Idiom(s): drop the other shoe

Theme: COMPLETION

to do the deed that completes something; to do the expected remaining part of something.(Refers to the removal of shoes at bedtime. One shoe is dropped, and then the process is completed when the second shoe drops.)
• Mr. Franklin has left his wife. Soon he'll drop the other shoe and divorce her.
• Tommy has just failed three classes in school. We expect him to drop the other shoe and quit altogether any day now.

drop the added shoe

To do the final allotment of something, abnormally back it is anticipated. The academy lath has already bidding their aloofness in this project, so it’s alone a amount of time afore they bead the added shoe and adios it altogether.Learn more: drop, other, shoe

drop the added shoe

Fig. to do the accomplishment that completes something; to do the accepted actual allotment of something. (Learn added wait for the added shoe to drop.) Mr. Franklin has larboard his wife. Soon he'll bead the added shoe and annulment her. Tommy has aloof bootless three classes in school. We apprehend him to bead the added shoe and abdicate altogether any day now.Learn more: drop, other, shoe

drop the added shoe

AMERICANIf addition drops the added shoe, they complete a assignment by accomplishing the additional and final allotment of it. Time Warner Inc. alone the added shoe in its two-step $13.86 billion accretion of Warner Communications Inc.Learn more: drop, other, shoe

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drop the other shoe Idiom