| 词组 | tumble down |
| 释义 | 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. |
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