drop by

Idioms  

1. Also,. 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

A television screen streamed presentations, and a financial adviser dropped by.

From The Wall Street Journal

When myself and a Times photographer thanked the group and left, the number of Latinos at the Los Angeles Hispanic Republican Club State of the Union potluck, already small, dropped by a quarter.

From Los Angeles Times

When researchers checked back two to four weeks later, those individuals demonstrated substantial improvement, with depression scores dropping by an average of 36%.

From Science Daily

When she dropped by in the morning, Magic would often discover that Duane hadn’t yet awoken, and by “often,” I mean all the time, because Duane tended to sleep in.

From Literature

So, analysts at the consultancy Cornwall Insight have forecast that a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will see their annual bill drop by £117, to £1,641 in April.

From BBC

Related Words

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