na. | 1. Petals drop and waters flow.; beat sb. All to pieces [nothing; ribands; sticks]; beat sb. Hollow [all hollow]; beat [knock] someone into fits; be badly battered; be shattered to pieces; dropping petals and flowing waters; falling petals and running waters; Fallen petals are all carried away by the flowing water.; (as swiftly as) flowing water carries away petals from [of] dead flowers; give sb. A thorough beating; like fallen flowers carried away by flowing water-in a sorry plight; like flowers scattered in a flowing stream-the saddening state of a fallen family or country; utterly routed |