fall+through
11fall through the cracks — slip/fall/through the cracks phrase to not be dealt with by a system that is designed to help you or to stop you doing something Too many neglected children are slipping through the cracks. Thesaurus: to not make progresssynonym Main entry: crack …
12fall through the cracks — to be not noticed or dealt with. Obviously too many young people fall through the cracks in the healthcare system …
13fall through — Synonyms and related words: break down, collapse, come to naught, come to nothing, crash, fall, fall dead, fall down, fall flat, fall in, fall short, fall stillborn, fizzle out, get bogged down, get hung up, get mired, go to smash, peter out,… …
14fall through — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To be unsuccessful: choke, fail. Informal: fall down, flop. Slang: bomb. Idioms: fail of success, fall short. See THRIVE. II verb See fall …
15fall\ through — v informal To fail; be ruined; not happen or be done. Jim s plans to go to college fell through at the last moment. Mr. Jones deal to sell his house fell through. Contrast: come off …
16fall through — PHRASAL VERB If an arrangement, plan, or deal falls through, it fails to happen. [V P] They wanted to turn the estate into a private golf course and offered ₤20 million, but the deal fell through …
17fall through — fail. → fall …
18fall through — verb To be unsuccessful, abort, come to nothing/naught; to be cancelled; not to proceed. Their plans to go hiking Saturday fell through because it rained …
19fall through — not happen, not succeed, not come off, not pan out His plans to write a novel fell through because he didn t get a government grant …
20fall through — fail, not happen My plan to go abroad fell through when my father refused to lend me some money …
