fall off the back of a lorry in English
(British Slang) appear from out of nowhere (ironic expression used to indicate that something came into one's possession in an illegitimate manner, i.e. by theft)
Use "fall off the back of a lorry" in a sentence
1. He gets caviare that has fallen off the back of a lorry.
2. A tanker driver died when his lorry veered off the motorway.
3. The lorry drivers' strike has put back our deliveries by over a month.
4. Fall back!
5. As the bus was waiting in Bondgate a lorry carrying scaffolding reversed into the back of the bus.
6. Smoked fresh daily, Bootleg’s Spare Ribs & Baby Back Ribs practically fall off the bone.
7. As he raced around one sharp corner he almost ran into the back of a slow moving lorry.
8. Fall back, then!
9. A body wrapped in a plastic bag is loaded on to a lorry and taken off to the morgue.
10. Fall back to the church.
11. A lorry ran down the hill out of control.
12. Half an hour after leaving camp, I saw the same lorry, pulled off the road beside a derelict shack.
13. You can fall off the map,
14. One of the steps are about to fall off.
15. Their impressive-looking ‘armies’ will fall just as withered leaves fall off a grapevine or “a shriveled fig” drops off a fig tree.
16. Therefore, the sack won't fall at the foot of the mast, but will fall further back.
17. Words fall off by disuse.
18. His bicycle collided with a lorry.
19. When the chanting stops they fall back in a faint.
20. Repeat, all Glaives fall back!
21. Price will never fall back.
22. The lorry was fully laden.
23. 22 There was a lorry blocking the way.
24. Back off... of everything.
25. 7 Words fall off by disuse.