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单词 rise like a rocket (and fall like a stick)
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rise like a rocket (and fall like a stick)

Rise suddenly and dramatically (and subsequently fall in a similar manner): the firm worries that, after rising like a rocket, exports could drop like the stick...
  • The incorruptible Tom Paine once said of an opportunistic politician: ‘He rose like a rocket, but he falls like a stick’.
  • Writing after the 1981 riots Socialist Worker's Chris Harman described how ‘riots rise like a rocket, but fall like a stick’.
  • All I have to do is read a newspaper or turn on the TV and my rage rises like a rocket and keeps on climbing.
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