fall headlong
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Again & again wily Senator Black would trip Witness Hopson up, cause him to fall headlong into puddles of contradiction.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"We must fall back before them if they push on, and then methinks they might drive us over the brink, so that we fall headlong to the bottom, and break in pieces."
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
But Bryan was lost in philosophic contemplation, and the first thing that awakened him to the fact was the slipping of a stone, which caused him to trip and fall headlong over the bank!
From Ungava by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
I was about to fall headlong into the gaping well, when I was drawn back by a firm and powerful hand.
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Verne, Jules
I expected every moment to see him fall headlong, half dead.
From Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Hapgood, Isabel Florence