keel over
Example Sentences
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Otherwise, he said “we’d be playing with fire if we didn’t comply. We’d feel pretty bad if a boy keeled over. I can hear them coughing and hacking.”
From Los Angeles Times
The only way to deploy this exhausting strategy without keeling over is to be fit.
It keeled over with a shriek of metal and hit the next lamppost, which collapsed sideways into the next.
From Literature
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Both men were overcome with emotion during the ceremony, in tears, and Rinderknech keeled over and had to be helped into a chair.
From Barron's
It’s the humidity, which has spiked to over 80%, that has them feeling ready to keel over between sets.
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