Speakur

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go down like a sack of potatoes

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English

Syllables
go -down -like a -sack- of pota-toes
IPA
45
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
6
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To fall hard and fast; to fall ungracefully.

Informal

Usage

Inflected Forms

goes down like a sack of potatoes (present, singular) going down like a sack of potatoes (participle, present) went down like a sack of potatoes (past) gone down like a sack of potatoes (participle, past) drop like a sack of potatoes (alternative)

Questions

What does go down like a sack of potatoes mean?
To fall hard and fast; to fall ungracefully.

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