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fall down on en · VERB

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1. To fail at or leave incomplete.
   • He would rather put a dent in his bankroll than fall down on anything he started. 2013, Robert K. DeArment, Gunfighter in Gotham: Bat Masterson's New York City Years, →ISBN, page xxxvi:
   • Even if we involve the subcontractors in implementation, we will fall down on the job. 2013, Victoria Socolova, Magickum.Prophetic dreams and lucid dreaming, →ISBN:
   • It might be that you would think in terms of the Standards Committee not only imparting a view about what standards are expected, and about what the consequences would be where people fall down on that in individual cases, but about a continuous process of engagement with Members of the House in terms of what standards are expected, to avoid having cases that illustrate it by virtue of breaches. 2015, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons Committee on Standards, HC 383 - The Standards System in the House of Commons, →ISBN, page 43:
2. To prostrate oneself in a position that rests on
   • I would fall down on my knees and I besought God to heal my heart and to forgive my iniquity. 2006, Iona, Fall Down and Worship Him!, →ISBN, page 35:
3. To collapse so that the remains are on top of.
   • Then he reached down and picked up the metal shelving from the thing and pushed it forward so it fell down on its other side with a loud crash. 2011, Robert S. Wilson, What Happens in Vegas: An Empire of Blood Short Story:
   • There is a support in the middle of this passageway to make sure the ceiling doesn't fall down on us. 2012, Robert Butler, After the Snow Began to Fall, →ISBN, page 55:
4. To stumble or unintentionally descend and land on
   • We started doing tug of war for the banana, and, eventually, the monkey yanked it out of my hands, making me fall down on my back on the ground. 2012, Henry J. Acevedo, Super-Secret Spies, →ISBN, page 58:
   • I am still on the training reins and often fall down on the slopes. 2012, Alice Peterson, By My Side, →ISBN, page 17:

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