Learn English – What’s the meaning of “I’m done falling off sh*t”

meaning

I checked the "fall off" in Longman Dictionary, it means:

  • if part of something falls off, it becomes separated from the main part

  • if the amount, rate, or quality of something falls off, it decreases

  • somebody nearly/almost fell off their chair

But no one fits with the phrase.

So, could you please tell me what the meaning of "I’m done falling off shit" is?

The text is:

Construction began on the milking barn in Oneida. Shawn designed and
welded the main frame—the massive beams that formed the skeleton of
the building. They were too heavy for the loader; only a crane could lift
them. It was a delicate procedure, requiring the welders to balance on
opposite ends of a beam while it was lowered onto columns, then welded in
place. Shawn surprised everyone when he announced that he wanted me to
operate the crane.

“Tara can’t drive the crane,” Dad said. “It’ll take half the morning to teach
her the controls, and she still won’t know what the hell she’s doing.”
“But she’ll be careful,” Shawn said, “and I’m done falling off shit.”

Best Answer

I'm done falling off shit.

Means simply "I'm done falling off different things". The word shit here stands for "all kinds of things". See Meaning No. 5 in Wiktionary's article for shit.

Shawn says that he does not want to fall from different kinds of structures any more.

The word off means "from". Compare:

“His friends jumped over smaller gaps. Ankit thought he would be able to jump over the gap that’s wider. While he attempted the jump, he slipped and fell off the cliff,” a friend Sanjeev Khokhar told SBS Punjabi. (Source)

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