fall over
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“Typically the way revisions happen, they start at an elevated level, and then they tend to fall over the course of the year, or over the course of the quarter, into the reports,” said Palfrey.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
BMW confirmed its adjusted guidance for the year, saying it expects profit to fall over 10 percent in 2026.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
However, these borrowers were now unlikely to see repayments fall over coming years, as had been forecast prior to the Iran conflict.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Others that begin well and then fall over: Mr. David does a fairly dead-on impersonation of Joseph McCarthy, but the sketch has nowhere else to go and so turns frantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
We’d seen him babbling and walking cockeyed down the road, leaning over so far you keep thinking he’ll plumb fall over.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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