
What Does “fall off the back of a lorry” mean?
Definition:
A euphemism for something acquired illegally or stolen.
Example(s)
He was trying to sell me a new laptop which I suspect fell off the back of a lorry.
This idiom is in the travel category.
  
A euphemism for something acquired illegally or stolen.
He was trying to sell me a new laptop which I suspect fell off the back of a lorry.
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