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fall off

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fall off
to decline or diminish. Business falls off during the summer months. My interest in school fell off when I became twenty.
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fall off (of something)

to drop off something. (of is usually retained before pronouns.) A button fell off my shirt. I fell off the log. The twigs fell off of him as he stood up.
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fall off
to become less Sales of handguns fell off sharply after the gun control law went into effect.
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"Hold on tight," he cautioned, "or you may fall off and crack your pumpkin head.
The Worm did nothing except fall off his pony, and knock chips out of gate-posts with his trap.
He appears to have a mortal dread of telegraph poles, especially; and it is fortunate that these are on both sides of the road, because as it is now, I never fall off twice in succession on the same side.
 
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