But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school.
English phrasal verb
drop out
To leave a course before finishing it.
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My grandfather, who everyone called Hoofer, and who had to drop out of the seventh grade to support his parents, was a traffic cop in Worcester, Massachusetts.
When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams because they didn't want to appear muscly.
They had to drop out of school and take on low-paying jobs to support their families.
But I dropped out of college because I was like, "I have to pursue my dreams as a musician.
Now, I'm an unlikely speaker today, not just because I dropped out, but because we're technically in the same generation.
Large number of girls drop out of school at puberty, one of the main reasons being the lack of separate toilets for them.
But then somewhere along the way they drop out of the workforce because their career cycle and their biological cycles clash.