fall off a truck—(U.S. euph.) said of an item that was probably stolen or obtained by questionable methods (also UK: fall off the back of a lorry):
- It shouldn’t be surprising that in such circumstances a lot of those products will “get lost in warehouses” or “fall off a truck.”
Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase fall off the wagon—resume drinking after having stopped:
- Broderson fell off the wagon again. After a week of heavy drinking, he pawned the trailer to an acquaintance.
fall off the turnip truck—(U.S. coll., usually negat.) be naive and gullible:
- I spent almost ten years in the private sector, so it’s not like I just fell off the turnip truck.