collapse under

collapse under the weight of (someone or something)

To fall down after supporting someone or something that is too heavy. The roof collapsed under the weight of all that snow.
See also: collapse, of, weight
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

collapse under someone or something

to cave in under the weight of someone or something. The grandstand collapsed under the weight of the spectators. The bridge collapsed from the force of the flood.
See also: collapse
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • collapse under the weight of (someone or something)
  • trim down
  • weigh out
  • fall in on
  • fall in on (someone or something)
  • weigh in
  • fat farm
  • weigh in at (something)
  • groan under the weight of (something)
  • groan under the weight of something
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Theorem: The second law of thermodynamics holds for the wave function collapse under a frequentist interpretation via Max Born's rule and, once accomplished the collapse, the collapse is an irreversible phenomenon.
Proof: Suppose the converse, i.e., that the second law of thermodynamics does not hold for the wave function collapse under a frequentist interpretation via Max Born's rule.
Comments on the statistical nature and on the irreversibility of the wave function collapse
In 1931, the late Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar predicted that stars with more than about 1.4 times the sun's mass would, on running out of nuclear fuel, collapse under their own gravity.
The stability of matter: why matter neither collapses nor explodes
It results from a tremendous collapse under the influence of the star's own gravitational self-attraction.
Extremely magnetic degenerate dwarf