| 词组 | tumble |
| 释义 | tumble [tumbled, tumbled, tumbling] tumble down 1. tumble down if a wall or building tumbles down, it falls to the ground and is destroyed: come tumbling down ▪ Do you remember the excitement there was when the Berlin wall came tumbling down? tumbledown adj always before noun a tumbledown building is old and in such bad condition that parts of it are falling down: ▪ There was a tumbledown shed at the bottom of the garden. 2. tumble down to be destroyed or fail, and no longer exist: ▪ Throughout the country change was coming quickly, barriers tumbling down. your world is tumbling down (=a lot of bad things happen to you and you feel very shocked or upset) ▪ She felt that everything was going wrong - her world was tumbling down around her. come tumbling down ▪ With the liberal atmosphere of the 1960s many old prejudices came tumbling down. tumble to tumble to sth BrE informal to suddenly understand something or realize what is happening, especially something that is secret or not obvious: ▪ We'd been married eighteen months before I tumbled to the fact that he was playing around with other women. ▪ Molly must have been ill for at least six months before I finally tumbled to it. |
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