fall down on
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To fail at or leave incomplete.
verb
To stumble or unintentionally descend and land on
Example Sentences
- "He would rather put a dent in his bankroll than fall down on anything he started."
- "Even if we involve the subcontractors in implementation, we will fall down on the job."
- "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."
- "I would fall down on my knees and I besought God to heal my heart and to forgive my iniquity."
- "There is a support in the middle of this passageway to make sure the ceiling doesn't fall down on us."
- "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."