have a spill

have a spill

To fall or stumble onto the ground. Often used with modifiers like "bad," "nasty," "awful," etc. I'm so scared that my mother is going to have a spill going down those stairs someday and end up breaking a hip. He had a nasty spill on his bicycle on his way home from work.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • break the news to (one)
  • break the news
  • break (something) to (someone)
  • break to
  • hellacious
  • go for (something)
  • go for it
  • got
  • go well with
  • go well with (someone or something)