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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

tumbling down

English answer:

falling down (fall down)

Added to glossary by Hakki Ucar
Nov 19, 2010 10:30
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English term

tumbling down

Non-PRO English Social Sciences Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
A flock of sheep charged a woman and pushed over a cliff to her death. I saw the sheep surround the bike and ,the next thing she was tumbling down the incline, a witness told the reporter.
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5 +7 falling down (fall down)
Change log

Nov 19, 2010 14:46: Sheila Wilson changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (3): Cilian O'Tuama, Joyce A, Sheila Wilson

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Discussion

Travelin Ann Nov 19, 2010:
As in "Jack and Jill" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_Jill_(nursery_rhyme)
Kimberlee Thorne Nov 19, 2010:
In this case, it means that it's not a secret anymore. In the past, there was a wall around it, but not anymore.
Hakki Ucar (asker) Nov 19, 2010:
Apple's Wall is Tumbling Down Once upon a time, building computers was as solitary an affair as using one, and a smart executive named Steve Jobs exploited this cloistered secrecy for fun and profit. But Apple's hermetic seal has broken, and there's no restoring it.

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falling down (fall down)

This is another way to say "fall down", but the idea is that while she is falling, she is turning and her body is doing somersaults and flips (like acrobats do), like when someone has an accident on a mountain or very steep hill. The idea is that someone is falling fast, instead of just falling.

A good example is when a skier has an accident. They usually tumble (go in circular type movements) instead of just straight down.
Example sentence:

"they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"

Reference:

http://www.glossary.com/dictionary.php?q=Rampart

Peer comment(s):
agree Arabic & More : Here is a picture to illustrate: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Jac...
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agree Maria Fokin
23 mins
agree Thayenga
49 mins
agree Joyce A : I like Amel's illustration. :-)
1 hr
agree Stephanie Ezrol
2 hrs
agree Veronika McLaren
2 hrs
agree British Diana
5 hrs
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