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Drop a line   /drɑp ə laɪn/   Listen
Drop a line

verb
1.
Communicate (with) in writing.  Synonym: write.






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"Drop a line" Quotes from Famous Books



... feet," laughed Innis, who had relinquished the wheel to Mr. Vardon. "Wait a bit, Dick, and I'll drop a line overboard ...
— Dick Hamilton's Airship - or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds • Howard R. Garis

... What you teaching him?—murder? outrage? He ought to have a tutor, he! That's good! Tutor! Well, suppose I drop a line first post to your nice pupil to let him know that it was his tutor who stole ...
— The Lord of the Sea • M. P. Shiel

... if you will drop a line to Colonel Porter, asking him to allow me to organize a squad of reliable men, say twelve or fifteen, and instruct them, whom we can call upon at any time, we will guarantee to show some rich developments inside of ...
— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith

... are nought: We cannot drop a line into that sea And read its fathoms off, nor gauge a ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow



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