what goes up must come down
- what goes up must come down
Originally associated with wartime bombing and anti-aircraft shrapnel.
1929 F. A. POTTLE Stretchers vii. The antiaircraft guns always took a shot for luck. What goes up must come down, and one can be killed quite as neatly by a fragment of his own shrapnel as by the enemy’s.
1949 N. MAILER Naked & Dead III. vi. Gravity would occupy the place of mortality (what goes up must come down).
1967 F. J. SINGER Epigrams at Large 57 ‘What goes up, must come down’ is really a time-worn statement which wore out after the Venus and Mars probes.
2001 Washington Post 7 Sept. B1 What goes up must come down, even 26 years later. And the aged Russian rocket that came down just before dawn yesterday did so with a glowing, protracted brilliance that startled the early birds who saw it from New York to North Carolina.
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