go down like ninepins

They were close enough for Jake to watch the ones near the burst going down like ninepins.

Poland, France, and the Low Countries had gone down like ninepins.

The teen-ages went down like ninepins before him.

The nicely paraded company went down like ninepins and within a short space of time all the Russian tanks were ablaze.

The enemy crew went down like ninepins under the battering of husky Navy fists.

They went down like ninepins - both of them poachers and Methodies, of course.

Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs, flailing hooves and broken lances.