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idiombe dropping/dying like flies(also be going down like flies)spoken used in order to say that a lot of people are becoming ill or dying, especially with the same illness or disease:In the year of the flu epidemic, men were dropping like flies as they worked, and their friends had to carry them to the church for burial.A couple of children said they didn't feel well. The next day, the whole school started going down like flies.
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