"until the wheels fall off" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-until the wheels fall off.wav [General-American]
  1. (figurative) Until exhaustion. Tags: figuratively Related terms: the wheels fell off
    Sense id: en-until_the_wheels_fall_off-en-prep_phrase-Reqj6Mzj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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