"go down like a sack of potatoes" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: goes down like a sack of potatoes [present, singular, third-person], going down like a sack of potatoes [participle, present], went down like a sack of potatoes [past], gone down like a sack of potatoes [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> down like a sack of potatoes|head=go down like a sack of potatoes}} go down like a sack of potatoes (third-person singular simple present goes down like a sack of potatoes, present participle going down like a sack of potatoes, simple past went down like a sack of potatoes, past participle gone down like a sack of potatoes)
  1. (simile, informal) To fall hard and fast; to fall ungracefully. Tags: informal Synonyms: drop like a sack of potatoes
    Sense id: en-go_down_like_a_sack_of_potatoes-en-verb-A4ovFQHI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English similes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
     
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    },
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fall hard and fast; to fall ungracefully."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ],
        [
          "fast",
          "fast"
        ],
        [
          "ungracefully",
          "ungracefully"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile, informal) To fall hard and fast; to fall ungracefully."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "drop like a sack of potatoes"
        }
      ],
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}

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        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going down like a sack of potatoes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went down like a sack of potatoes",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone down like a sack of potatoes",
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      ]
    }
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      "glosses": [
        "To fall hard and fast; to fall ungracefully."
      ],
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        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ],
        [
          "fast",
          "fast"
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        [
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          "ungracefully"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile, informal) To fall hard and fast; to fall ungracefully."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "drop like a sack of potatoes"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go down like a sack of potatoes"
}

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