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dry up and blow away en · VERB
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(idiomatic, informal) To go away; to disappear.
No-one wants to donate a large sum of hard-earned money to an agency that may dry up and blow away next year.
2010, John Mutz, Katherine Murray, Fundraising For Dummies:But some neighbors still let their sprinklers spray, and Mr. Trussell worried that the little community his grandparents helped build was on the brink of drying up and blowing away.
2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2021:
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