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drop a line

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Verb1.drop a line - communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!"
write
write - communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week"
correspond - exchange messages; "My Russian pen pal and I have been corresponding for several years"
write - communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming soon"


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There was one or two Frenchmen that squatted in the flats further west, and married squaws; and some of the Scotch- Irishers, from the Cherry Valley, would come on to the lake, and borrow my canoe to take a mess of parch, or drop a line for salmon- trout; but, in the main, it was a cheerful place, and I had but little to disturb me in it.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
I'll lock it up in my strong box now and drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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