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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Butler never imagined Zimmerer – a typically non-spontaneous person – would drop everything to book a flight and travel more than 1,500 miles from Nebraska to be there.
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Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
From wedding cakes to reception venues, brands are vowing to drop everything now for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's impending nuptials.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Your old friends are ready to drop everything to hang out.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
The timing could not have been more serendipitous – my baby girl was down south visiting grandparents for the first few weeks of summer, and work schedules had also mercifully aligned for me and her father to drop everything and jet to the Caribbean for a few days.
—Essence, 1 Aug. 2025
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Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
From wedding cakes to reception venues, brands are vowing to drop everything now for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's impending nuptials.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Your old friends are ready to drop everything to hang out.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
The timing could not have been more serendipitous – my baby girl was down south visiting grandparents for the first few weeks of summer, and work schedules had also mercifully aligned for me and her father to drop everything and jet to the Caribbean for a few days.
—Essence, 1 Aug. 2025
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“Drop everything.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drop%20everything. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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