come crashing down
idiom
: to fall down with a lot of noise and force
The whole stack of cans came crashing down.
—sometimes used figurativelyThe whole theory came crashing down when it was revealed that some of the supporting evidence had been falsified.
His world came crashing down when he lost his job.
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But if the person giving the wedding speech has trouble pronouncing the words or gets lost in the assembly of words, the best of speeches is going to come crashing down.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Now comes the hard part: figuring out what caused the roof of a 50-year-old former movie theater to come crashing down, just as hundreds of people had gathered for a concert.
—Hogla Enecia Pérez, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
Temperatures from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast dipped to levels more appropriate for the first days of March Monday morning and will come crashing down to February-like levels by Tuesday morning.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025
That breaking string is happening in the souls of a family, in a class, in a country, in an entire social order about to come crashing down.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Now comes the hard part: figuring out what caused the roof of a 50-year-old former movie theater to come crashing down, just as hundreds of people had gathered for a concert.
—Hogla Enecia Pérez, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
Temperatures from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast dipped to levels more appropriate for the first days of March Monday morning and will come crashing down to February-like levels by Tuesday morning.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025
That breaking string is happening in the souls of a family, in a class, in a country, in an entire social order about to come crashing down.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for come crashing down
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“Come crashing down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come%20crashing%20down. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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