When the state office of vital records mailed a death certificate instead, she said, "I literally dropped it."

He was brilliant and my mouth literally dropped open.

I had to literally drop what I was doing at times to go to the bathroom.

Isn't it nice to imagine that true love can literally drop out of the sky and land in your yard?

Or pieces of an airplane literally drop on your house.

"The last couple of hundred yards to the houses I had decided on, the men were literally dropping like flies," he recalls.

She grasped the table edge and literally dropped into her chair.

That was the only reason her jaw did not literally drop.

He literally dropped to his knees, as the others winced.

When the Bensons tried moving her to a comfortable pen, she literally dropped dead.