fall off

hävitä, vähetä

pudota puhekieltä To become detached or to drop from.

A button fell off my coat.

Dorothy stood up and found she was in her stocking-feet. For the Silver Shoes had fallen off in her flight through the air, and were lost forever in the desert.

Business always falls off in the winter.

MC ___s new album is wack - he's fallen off big-time.''

'Why d'ye see, Captain Vangs,' says bold Jack, 'I'm as good a helmsman as ever put hand to spoke; but none of us can steer the old lady now. We can't keep her full and bye, sir; watch her ever so close, she will fall off and then, sir, when I put the helm down so gently, and try like to coax her to the work, she won't take it kindly, but will fall round off again; and it's all because she knows the land is under the lee, sir, and she won't go any more to windward.'

She would not mind her helm, but would fall off; she would settle down aft and take in water over her stern, and plunged heavily forward.

There was the constant danger of the ship, now- broadside on to the heavy seas, falling off before the heavy wind, and leading the flames forward again.