IDIOMS
go down, drop, etc. like ninepins (BrE, informal) to fall down or become ill in great numbers:
Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs. * There's a lot of flu about and people are going down like ninepins.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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