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View synonyms for drop by

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, drop in or over . Pay a brief, casual, and usually unannounced visit. For example, I asked her to drop by whenever she was in the neighborhood , or Joan loves to have friends drop in , or We'd love to drop over but we haven't time on this trip . The first term dates from the first half of the 1900s; drop in is from the mid-1600s and drop over from the late 1800s.
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Example Sentences

Every maitre'd and restaurateur is hoping for a drop-by: After all, the Obama food chain means big bucks.

The ecstasies and agonies of love, the agonies and ecstasies of fear and doubt and drop-by-drop fulfillment, realization.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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