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keel over
verb
- to turn upside down; capsize
- informal.intr to collapse suddenly
Idioms and Phrases
Collapse, as if in a faint; also, faint. For example, When she heard the awful news, she keeled over . This term alludes to a vessel rolling on its keel and capsizing. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
"When I'm older, when the body's keeled over a bit, I expect I'll pick up where I left off," he said.
They kiss, keel over, profess their love, resist their exploitation.
You have to do comparisons and say, ‘I need more space to sing so I don’t just keel over.’
“I’m paying through the nose. Every day, I’m seeing another bill, and I’m about to keel over.â€
A second video, apparently taken from a nearby security camera, appears to show two soldiers shooting Ben-Avraham from a close distance as he keels over backward onto the sidewalk.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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