Word.ws English Dictionary

fallen off the twig

fallen off the twig is the past participle of fall off the twig.

Meaning of fall off the twig

Verb

fall off the twig (third-person singular simple present falls off the twig, present participle falling off the twig, simple past fell off the twig, past participle fallen off the twig)

  1. (UK, idiomatic) Synonym of die.
    • Who says justice is dead? George Burton fell off the twig while being interviewed about his book.2000 February 5, Douglas Watkinson et al., “Beyond the Grave”, in Midsomer Murders
    Synonyms:
    die

Questions about fallen off the twig

What is fallen off the twig the past participle of?
Fallen off the twig is the past participle of fall off the twig.

Words near fallen off the twig in the dictionary

  1. fallen off a truck
  2. fallen off the back of a lorry
  3. fallen off the back of a truck
  4. fallen off the radar
  5. fallen off the turnip truck
  6. fallen off the twig
  7. fallen off the ugly tree
  8. fallen off the wagon
  9. fallen on
  10. fallen on a grenade
  11. fallen on deaf ears

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fallen off the twig (page history and authors); fall off the twig (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fallen off the twig.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fallen_off_the_twig. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.