Idiom
fall off a truck
Meaning
Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession without having been paid for; to be acquired illegally; to have been stolen.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That laptop fell off a truck, so I got it cheap.”
“He sold me a phone that fell off a truck, but I didn't ask questions.”
“The warehouse manager was arrested after years of letting electronics fall off a truck into the hands of local dealers.”
Examples
simple
“That laptop fell off a truck, so I got it cheap.”
contextual
“He sold me a phone that fell off a truck, but I didn't ask questions.”
complex
“The warehouse manager was arrested after years of letting electronics fall off a truck into the hands of local dealers.”
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