be dying like flies informal
be dropping like flies informal

They'll be dying like flies over there before long perhaps.

They are dying like flies, and who cares about them?

"We cannot wait for laboratory tests when people are dying like flies."

The Plague was starting to spread and people were dying like flies.

This time next week they'll be dying like flies from overeating.

"We are dying like flies down there in the valley.

The French tried to remain humane and their troops were dying like flies.

Even before the Purple Death came along they was dying like flies at the end of the summer.

When the spanish flu was on they were dying like flies.

They are dying like flies in the camps, starved, beaten, shot.

They must have been dying like flies here.

After all, if the roosters were dying like flies, could the bunnies be far behind?

"The radio is dead," he said, "and the robots are dying like flies.

The men were dying like flies, of fever.

Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies."

The small-pox was raging throughout the country, and the natives were dying like flies in winter.

But she thought to herself: 'The moments of my life are dying like flies gulped down by fish.

They are dying like flies, in their silvered mail!"

"It is costing the taxpayers billions of dollars, soldiers are dying like flies and they are stuck there."

Batteries - the cells, packs and button-size disks that people can't live without - are dying like flies.

They were dying like flies.

People are dying like flies!

"People were dying like flies," Ms. Peters said.

Meanwhile in the overcrowded, squalid base hospitals, those who had survived so far were dying like flies, their beds immediately refilled.

"If bats are even remotely as dangerous as people say they are, people would be dying like flies in Austin," he said.

All the good guys seem to be dropping like flies these days.

Back in the old days, when people were dropping like flies, there was real fear.

It made sense in light of what she had said on the phone, that those who knew were dropping like flies.

"He can keep going when everyone else is dropping like flies.

It might seem that classical stations are dropping like flies.

This was not to say that captains were dropping like flies; far from it.

Before you know it, they'll all be dropping like flies and whining that they're too tired.

I am very aware that suddenly my friends are dropping like flies: getting married, engaged or living together.

"They were dropping like flies there for a while.

I didn't want to believe in the thing, but people and dwarves were dropping like flies.

"This tree has been here for 300 years while elm trees all around it were dropping like flies," he said.

"By tonight, the meat eaters will be dropping like flies.

"When people were dropping like flies, their services were more narrowly focused," she said.

"The kids at school are dropping like flies."

IT would seem that art professionals in Westchester are dropping like flies.

"People here are dropping like flies," he said.

But the Simons family has been dropping like flies for a couple of generations.

"I talked to my friends who were there during that time, and it was scary - people were dropping like flies," she said.

While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.

"When the Police and Fire Departments got there, they were dropping like flies," he said.

After all this expansion, fashion retailing seems due for a contraction, and stores have been dropping like flies.

"My men are dropping like flies," said Kirk.

The older screws were dropping like flies.

"Guys are dropping like flies," said Bernie Williams, turning to knock on wood for good luck.

"These defense fraud cases are dropping like flies," said a Congressional source who spoke on condition on anonymity.