Meanings
verbdie like flies (third-person singular simple present dies like flies, present participle dying like flies, simple past and past participle died like flies)
present singular third person dies like flies · participle present dying like flies · participle past died like flies · past died like flies
- Synonym of drop like flies.
They must have been dying like flies here.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196Synonyms: drop like flies
Synonyms & antonyms
verbSynonym of drop like flies.
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