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drop everything

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drop everything
Fig. to stop doing whatever you are doing. Drop everything and go outside. The house is on fire. Do you expect me to drop everything and come and pick you up at school?
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drop everything
if you drop everything, you suddenly stop what you are doing in order to do something else instead I can't just drop everything and go into town with you. I have to finish this letter.
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drop everything
to suddenly stop what you were doing You can't just barge into my office when I'm busy and expect me to drop everything.
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Sometimes we had to drop everything and cling with both hands to the swaying spars, holding our breath in fear of a terribly heavy roll.
We busted it up, and chased the children up the hollow; but we never got anything but some doughnuts and jam, though Ben Rogers got a rag doll, and Jo Harper got a hymn-book and a tract; and then the teacher charged in, and made us drop everything and cut.
Then there would be a yell of warning--the men would drop everything and dash for the nearest pillar, slipping here and there on the floor, and tumbling over each other.
 
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