dry up and blow away

English

Verb

dry up and blow away (third-person singular simple present dries up and blows away, present participle drying up and blowing away, simple past dried up and blew away, past participle dried up and blown away)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To go away; to disappear.
    • 2010, John Mutz, Katherine Murray, Fundraising For Dummies:
      No-one wants to donate a large sum of hard-earned money to an agency that may dry up and blow away next year.
    • 2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 July 2021:
      But some neighbors still let their sprinklers spray, and Mr. Trussell worried that the little community his grandparents helped build was on the brink of drying up and blowing away.
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