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follow someone off a cliff

follow someone off a cliff verb: to follow (a leader or a de facto leader) without question or thought, leading to potentially disastrous consequences.

Verb

follow someone off a cliff (third-person singular simple present follows someone off a cliff, present participle following someone off a cliff, simple past and past participle followed someone off a cliff)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To follow (a leader or a de facto leader) without question or thought, leading to potentially disastrous consequences.
    • You can’t just follow someone off a cliff, especially when they lead you into bad decisions.
    • He had a habit of blindly following the leader, almost like he would follow them off a cliff.

Forms of follow someone off a cliff

third-person singular presentfollows someone off a cliff
present participlefollowing someone off a cliff
past participlefollowed someone off a cliff
pastfollowed someone off a cliff

Questions about follow someone off a cliff

What does follow someone off a cliff mean?
Follow someone off a cliff means to follow (a leader or a de facto leader) without question or thought, leading to potentially disastrous consequences.
What part of speech is follow someone off a cliff?
Follow someone off a cliff is a verb.
What is the past tense of follow someone off a cliff?
The past tense of follow someone off a cliff is followed someone off a cliff.

Words near follow someone off a cliff in the dictionary

  1. follow on
  2. follow one's bliss
  3. follow one's heart
  4. follow one's nose
  5. follow ons
  6. follow someone off a cliff
  7. follow someone to the ends of the earth
  8. follow someone to the ends of the world
  9. follow spot
  10. follow suit
  11. follow suite

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