Tommy Tran
2021-10-16 10:10
Rise like a rocket (and fall like a stick) verb phrase
The verb "fall" can be replaced by "drop."
Used to describe someone or something that rises quickly and suddenly, then falls in the same way.
A: "I can't get why our business didn't last. It was just thriving." B: "Well, it rises like a rocket, and falls like a stick."
Everybody feels sorry for that young man Kelvin. His acting career rises like a rocket and falls like a stick.
Impulsively or suddenly
To kill someone in a very quick or abrupt way
To be extremely quick and abrupt
May mắn bất ngờ xảy ra.
Move one's head backwards quickly and immediately
The verb "rise/fall" should be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase derives from a remark made by Thomas Paine about Edmund Burke's oratory during a House of Commons discussion on the French Revolution in 1792. Paine remarked:
"As he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick"
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