go down like a sack of potatoes (English, verb)
expansion: go down like a sack of potatoes (third-person singular simple present goes down like a sack of potatoes, present participle going down like a sack of potatoes, simple past went down like a sack of potatoes, past participle gone down like a sack of potatoes)
Senses:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To fall hard and fast; to fall ungracefully.
tags: informal
Forms:
form: goes down like a sack of potatoes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: going down like a sack of potatoes
tags: participle
present
form: went down like a sack of potatoes
tags: past
form: gone down like a sack of potatoes
tags: participle
past
form: drop like a sack of potatoes
tags: alternative