die like flies

verb

die like flies

verb

1

Synonym of drop like flies.

They must have been dying like flies here.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196:

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