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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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Mrs Justice Stacey said the group "fell down the face of the weir" in no more than 20 seconds.

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At the start of night two, I was going up a mountain and it was raining and there were gale force winds so the snow was melting and I kept falling down.

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May said modern slavery had recently "fallen down the political agenda" and that she wanted to boost efforts to tackle it.

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But they didn’t finish the quarter strong, turning the ball over, missing shots, giving up a 16-3 run to fall down by eight entering the second quarter.

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But as far as what the character was processing toward the end, I think it was pure panic and trying to keep up this mask that just keeps falling down.

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

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