"dry up and blow away" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: dries up and blows away [present, singular, third-person], drying up and blowing away [participle, present], dried up and blew away [past], dried up and blown away [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|dry<> up and blow<,,blew,blown> away|head=dry up and blow away}} dry up and blow away (third-person singular simple present dries up and blows away, present participle drying up and blowing away, simple past dried up and blew away, past participle dried up and blown away)
  1. (idiomatic, informal) To go away; to disappear. Tags: idiomatic, informal
    Sense id: en-dry_up_and_blow_away-en-verb-~Fx5dzVI Categories (other): English coordinated pairs, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    {
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    },
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        {
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          "ref": "2010, John Mutz, Katherine Murray, Fundraising For Dummies:",
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        "To go away; to disappear."
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      "links": [
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          "go away",
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        [
          "disappear",
          "disappear"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To go away; to disappear."
      ],
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    },
    {
      "form": "drying up and blowing away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dried up and blew away",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dried up and blown away",
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        "To go away; to disappear."
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          "disappear",
          "disappear"
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        "(idiomatic, informal) To go away; to disappear."
      ],
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}

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