dry up and blow away
dry up and blow away verb: to go away; to disappear.
Verb
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)
- To go away; to disappear.
- No-one wants to donate a large sum of hard-earned money to an agency that may dry up and blow away next year.2010, John Mutz, Katherine Murray, Fundraising For Dummies
- But some neighbors still let their sprinklers spray, and Mr. Trussell worried that the little community his grandparents helped build was on the brink of drying up and blowing away.2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2021
Forms of dry up and blow away
| third-person singular present | dries up and blows away |
|---|---|
| present participle | drying up and blowing away |
| past | dried up and blew away |
| past participle | dried up and blown away |
Questions about dry up and blow away
- What does dry up and blow away mean?
- Dry up and blow away means to go away; to disappear.
- What part of speech is dry up and blow away?
- Dry up and blow away is a verb.
- What is the past tense of dry up and blow away?
- The past tense of dry up and blow away is dried up and blew away.
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