The phrase
"to keel over" means to fall or collapse in a helpless or lifeless manner, often used figuratively to describe someone who is very weak or exhausted.
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I'm liking the chunk heeled booties, finally something that makes me look taller but I'm not
keeling over in!!
I'm getting back into the swing of half marathon training — putting one foot in front of the other, while simultaneously hoping I don't
keel over from a heat stroke.
What's new in the world of eternal building, unbuilding, ganking, ganking buildings, and consuming adequate food and water so you do
n't keel over dead from all the fun you're having?
The biggest reinvention arrives when the eternal struggle between Farmer McGregor (Sam Neill) and Peter Rabbit (voiced by James Corden, and tremendously well - animated), the de facto leader of the family of bunnies raiding the man's vegetable patch, comes to a seemingly abrupt end when McGregor
keels over dead — the result of a lifetime of bad habits and, presumably, unchecked and ceaseless rage toward the surrounding fauna.
Reports indicate that a frowning, concentrating Shelton visibly aged in front of his loved ones — his skin sagging and wrinkling, his hair turning snowy white, and his eyes gleaming with decades of suddenly - acquired wisdom;
before keeling over with a triumphant smile on his face.
It's staggering that the Labour backbenchers
just keeled over and accepted such a vague promise.
At a special dinner with his nuclear family and parish priest, he learns that his family's perfect life is about to
keel over as his four children decide to come out of their various closets...
Because my husband would just about
keel over when I presented him with all that amazing, decadent goodness!
When we came across this recipe by The First Mess way back when, we
nearly keeled over from excitement.
It seems like such a simple way to stay healthy: Just pop an aspirin and worry a little less
about keeling over from a heart attack or stroke.
Never being particularly handy around the house, I like to know that when I move that dial on the thermostat, heat will stream effortlessly through the vents and the dog won't
keel over due to carbon monoxide issues.
Without people to pick us up when we fall, shake us out of it when we're stuck, and
keel over with laughter when the best thing for us is to laugh until tears roll down our cheeks?
It was my first - ever public race, and my biggest concern was finishing the thing
without keeling over somewhere between Times Square and Battery Park.
Unfortunately for Mr. McGregor, it doesn't matter: He will
soon keel over from a heart attack, making it entirely clear — if the strained comedy and mean - spirited vibes hadn't already done so — that this isn't exactly your grandmother's «Peter Rabbit,» much less Beatrix Potter's.
He and Patty made this final move so he could be closer to school, so, with his workday beginning at 6:30 a.m., he wouldn't have to spend three nights a week sleeping in a San Jose State dorm room after having studied tapes until 11 p.m. Just as a point of speculation, it is suggested that maybe he would like to coach until he's 90 or 95,
keel over on the field in mid-practice and be buried under one of the goalposts that bookend all football fields like gateways to another world.
«I know they were just sitting there, and he had a heart attack and kind
of keeled over when they were done,» Pearn said.
He took this 121 mph serve straight to the nuts,
barely keeled over and still retrieved the ball immediately.
Shortly after Mr.
McGregor keels over, his estate unexpectedly passes to his great - nephew, Thomas (Domhnall Gleeson), an ambitious, obsessively tidy Type A Londoner who turns out to be the movie's most tolerable character by a country mile.
And not in the Fire Emblem way where
simply keeling over in battle has consequences — choices made throughout the story can cause certain characters to bite the dust.
So if you have a $ 100,000 portfolio, and inflation is running at a steady 2 % a year, you can withdraw $ 4,000 the first year, $ 4,080 the next, $ 4,162 the next, and so on, until you
finally keel over at 95.
Cue several tiny and relatively meaningless scenes, where Marillier and her sister attempt urinating standing up,
keeling over laughing in the process.
The film sometimes flirts, even, with becoming a full - on comedy of manners, at least before characters
start keeling over and breathing their last breaths.
That ability to start fresh is precisely what trains your brain to separate yourself from thoughts and emotions to be more even -
keeled over time.
When the U.S. housing
market keeled over in 2008, the Federal Reserve was deliberately trying to slow down the economy.
It
only keeled over when the Fed was deliberately trying to slow down the economy and had jacked up its rates until they surpassed long - term rates (inversion in the yield curve).
(«The hull thing makes a
fellow keel over from sheer delight,» he wrote shamelessly for a girlie documentation of New York's winter boat show.)
And if her
tower keels over, try to get her to laugh about it or even make smashing buildings part of the game.
Coupled with these are images more directly reminiscent of those grainy black and white photos on display in Holocaust museums throughout the world — lines of men kneeling in front of ditches, gunmen behind them about to shoot, or a row of bloodied corpses
already keeled over into the ditch.
At present, there isn't a shred of evidence to link everyday stress — traffic jams, money worries, crummy bosses, unhappy relationships — to
neurons keeling over dead.
Females that carry only defective copies of the daf - 2 equivalent (InR) buzz around long after normal
flies keel over, according to a group led by Marc Tatar, an evolutionary geneticist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Yet, questions regarding the safety of Red Bull, as well as other energy drinks, keep cropping up at regular intervals when yet another overzealous energy -
addict keels over,» explains Dr Mercola.
Whether it be by taking on a young protégé in the gym — who spends most of the
sessions keeled over a garbage can — or by going to high schools across the country and sharing his story: that's his ultimate goal.
Every time I see Chris in a suit I pretty much swoon and
keel over like the lovestruck teenager that I totally am, and all is right in the world.
Kudos to you for running a marathon — I completed a half - marathon with my dad this spring and nearly
keeled over afterward, I couldn't imagine doing that distance AGAIN!
Seymour Cassel, who dates back to John Cassavetes» films, plays Tommy's Uncle Al,
who keels over dead while driving his Good Humor truck through suburbia.
But just when times seem darkest, everything changes: Dad
mercifully keels over and Chris is left in charge of the farm and the family's money, and she begins to eye local lad Ewan (Kevin Guthrie) as a potential husband.
Unremarkable details — the eruption of sprinklers, a blaring car alarm, a hammered and sleep - deprived frat
pledge keeling over — play like clockwork as our «heroine» attempts to unravel the mystery of who is killing her, assuming that discovering the identity of her attacker will bring an end to the murdercycle once and for all.
Just before getting his answer,
Vanessa keels over, dead instantly, leaving Anderson despondent and unable to resolve that there will be another woman as perfect in his lifetime.
When a pet
bird keels over in its cage, suspicion naturally falls on the cat in the apartment.
While his wife is in the hospital after
keeling over cooking him dinner (another resonant moment), he encounters a young African refugee on the run from the authorities and helps him find his family.