Idiom
fall off the back of a lorry
Meaning
Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession without having been paid for; to have been acquired illegally.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“His new phone fell off the back of a lorry.”
“The police asked where he got the laptop, suspecting it had fallen off the back of a lorry.”
“In the pub, he winked and said the whiskey fell off the back of a lorry, though everyone knew he had stolen it from the warehouse.”
Examples
simple
“His new phone fell off the back of a lorry.”
contextual
“The police asked where he got the laptop, suspecting it had fallen off the back of a lorry.”
complex
“In the pub, he winked and said the whiskey fell off the back of a lorry, though everyone knew he had stolen it from the warehouse.”
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