drop everything

idiom

: to stop what one is doing

I dropped everything and ran to the window to see what was going on.

Examples of drop everything in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

His take on the professional star whisperer, ready to drop everything for his client in a nanosecond and able to coax him out of funks via endless distractions, is neither cloyingly affectionate nor barbed. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 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

There were some who were truly busy, though, and couldn’t just drop everything in order to come meet me. —Jack Hargreaves, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for drop everything

• anything
• colouring
• nuzzling
• snorkeling
• splattering
• superstring
• underwing
• worshiping
• bing
• bring
• ching
• cling