Meanings of collapse all in English

Many experts worry that the old tunnel system could collapse all at once.

They have been afraid of collapse all day, but she is better this evening.

This one was quite firm and didn't collapse all over the plate, which is a good thing.

When the wife did at last give in to the cold, the hunger, and the weariness, it was to collapse all at once.

The Huns may stand out a long while, but when the time comes they may collapse all at once like the deacon's 'one-hoss shay.'

There must have been something very fierce in her young face, for Meschini's heart failed him, and his nerves seemed to collapse all at once.

Rather than maintaining firewalls between the economic and the erotic, the "disruptors" collapse all of life's distinctions into one continuous flow of consumption and production.

He collapsed all in a heap, with a bullet through his head.

He collapsed all at once, mumbling to himself some inarticulate gibberish.

In a good garage, the whole mess of it almost collapses all day long.

It looked as if the stairway had collapsed all the way into the basement.

The doctor says sometimes a man collapses all at once.

A nightmare of the balance collapsing all around them.

Shows are collapsing all over the damned country.

Takeovers, acquisitions, high-profile court cases and major share price collapses all featured over the course of the year.

People were collapsing all around them.