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View synonyms for fall down

fall down

verb

  1. to drop suddenly or collapse
  2. informal.
    often foll by on to prove unsuccessful; fail
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Fail to meet expectations; lag in performance. For example, It was disappointing to see him fall down on the job . This expression transfers a literal drop to a figurative one. [Second half of 1800s]
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Example Sentences

In the meantime, just as the bill passed its first hurdle, snow flakes started to fall down on the Capitol.

What I say to people is, if you fall down, fall down on your back.

And only at night, and when reading certain books, do I fall down into a tunnel that takes me back to a more enchanted place.

If it does fall down, I want to be playing in the quartet on the top deck, sinking with it.

They climb atop bare-chested men in a boxing ring—and sometimes they fall down and go boom.

The huts of the poor people are miserably bad, being mostly built of clay and wood, and threatening to fall down every moment.

But if any man shall not fall down and adore, he shall the same hour be cast into a furnace of burning fire.

And that if any man shall not fall down and adore, he should be cast into a furnace of burning fire.

And they that eat bread with him, shall destroy him, and his army shall be overthrown: and many shall fall down slain.

Entrance to his mine, Tom replied, Dont go near it or you will probably fall down a shaft or something.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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