drop like flies

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drop like flies - rapidly collapse, die, or drop out in large numbers; "the contestants dropped like flies when the thermometer hit one hundred degrees"

collapse, break down - collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack

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Even as Internet content companies drop like flies, the race to deliver data, voice and video traffic ever faster is spurring investments in new firms convinced they can do just that.

Investors Keen on High-Flying Chip Firm by BRINSLEY, JOHN / Los Angeles Business Journal

A dance band lover watching the bands drop like flies around him; a modernist who still yearns for the happy simplicities of Dixieland; a lanky guy with a winning grin, arrogant as hell about his talent, who nevertheless believes that, whatever else it is, the music should be fun.

Music to have fun by: Gerry Mulligan & his baritone sax by McConnell, Frank / Commonweal

In a worst case scenario, Hollywood's independent production and distribution companies will drop like flies, as the mammoth television networks and major studios snatch away their business.

Fin-syn ruling leaves all scorned and some in fear of extinction by Rackham, Anne / Los Angeles Business Journal

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