drop everything
idiom
: to stop what one is doing
I dropped everything and ran to the window to see what was going on.
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Generosity With Your Attention When people tell you about themselves, their work or their aspirations, drop everything else and listen.
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Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2025
Kelly’s impetuous decision to drop everything and travel abroad forces his loyal team, including publicist Liz (Laura Dern) and agent Ron (Sandler), among others, to join him.
—Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 2 Dec. 2025
So why can’t Hopper and Eleven drop everything to reconnect with their friends who are having car trouble?
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025
Even if your beat wasn’t geopolitics or the economic structure behind deep-sea tourism, you were supposed to drop everything and help perpetuate the flood, or find a way to work it into your coverage, however contrived.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
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Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2025
Kelly’s impetuous decision to drop everything and travel abroad forces his loyal team, including publicist Liz (Laura Dern) and agent Ron (Sandler), among others, to join him.
—Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 2 Dec. 2025
So why can’t Hopper and Eleven drop everything to reconnect with their friends who are having car trouble?
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025
Even if your beat wasn’t geopolitics or the economic structure behind deep-sea tourism, you were supposed to drop everything and help perpetuate the flood, or find a way to work it into your coverage, however contrived.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Drop everything.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drop%20everything. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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