shop till you drop

shop till (one) drops

To spend an exorbitant or unrestrained amount of time shopping and buying things. Every weekend my wife shops till she drops. Her credit card bills are enormous! With a huge range of sales and savings across the country, retailers are hoping that consumers will shop till they drop this weekend.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

shop till you drop

If you shop till you drop, you do a lot of shopping. I've had to do what any girl does best, shop till I drop.
See also: drop, shop, till
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

shop till you drop

go on an unrestrained shopping spree. informal
See also: drop, shop, till
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • shop till (one) drops
  • till next time
  • till then
  • (goodbye) till then
  • shell an amount of money out
  • shell out
  • shell out an amount of money
  • then
  • pay through the nose
  • pay through the nose (for something)
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Shop till you drop at the ongoing French Connection end of season sale.
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Shop till you drop: Check out the onboard shops which offer great savings on fragrances, spirits and designer handbags or dine out onboard with a menu selection guaranteed to satisfy even the fussiest eaters.
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"Wor youngin's sixty, it's the morn he waas born." I could cry if I didn't laugh, one long daily slog of shop till you drop, No!
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Then you'll shop till you drop at the legendary Barneys department store.
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Moreover, his exploration of how the American Legion's championing of the consumeristic "American way of life" as an antidote to the "menace" of cold-war communism explains why current slogans such as "shop till you drop" and "America: Open for Business!" seem so natural today.
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In East Anglia that's down to 27.6%, with 10.3% preferring to go shopping - which puts a whole new slant on shop till you drop!
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You can shop till you drop on Teesside and in the surrounding area.
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Other reports released around the same time by the Environmental Working Group (Skin Deep: A Safety Assessment of Ingredients in Personal Care Products) and Friends of the Earth (Shop Till You Drop? Survey of High Street Retailers on Risk; Chemicals in Products 2003-2004) support Environment California's publication.
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