"die like flies" meaning in English

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      "form": "dying like flies",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "They must have been dying like flies here.",
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        "Synonym of drop like flies"
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  "word": "die like flies"
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      "form": "dies like flies",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dying like flies",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "died like flies",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "died like flies",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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