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To drop someone a line is to write them a short note--literally, a line of text.

It is not really an idiom, it is an elliptical statement that is completed by Drop someone a line (of text in his mailbox).

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People who love fishing know this idiom in it's more literal sense. Dropping a fishing line into the water obviously to catch fish, has been taken in to mean more philosophical terms. An example of this is 'drop a line' meaning to write a 'line' of words for letter writing. Another 'drop a line' could reference a delivery of cocaine line.

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When you (Drop someone a line) ... you are sending them a note , e-mail , letter .. etc.

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