ninepins in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

ninepins in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for ninepins in the English»Spanish Dictionary

ninepins Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be going down like ninepins
caer como moscas
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Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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As firms fell like ninepins around them, canny chief executives demanded new clauses in their contracts that guaranteed the equivalent of lottery wins if their firms were taken over.
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They talk in the sheds about how he bowled over champ after champ like ninepins.
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Our boys were falling like ninepins, but it was even worse for them.
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Her husband bought his shop with her dowry, goes to the alehouse at every opportunity and squanders his money playing ninepins.
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