to fall
- verb
- /fɔl/
- The task of focusing on those harsh realities fell to the Jamaican Information Services.
- responsibility falls to
- task falls to
- falls on the shoulders
Financial ramifications fall on who's ever making more money, OK.
- Financial ramifications fall on who's ever making more money, OK.
- So this might fall largely on the CEO and the parental advisors.
- I think she was conscious that this was her and of the responsibility that fell on her to rise to it.
- Let me make sure that let me pray that this does this curse doesn't fall on Jed, which I totally understand her mindset there.
Examples
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Wanda began to wonder why all the responsibility seemed to be falling on her shoulders.
Fiction book (1990) -
Legally, since he is gone, the title of the Carlyle estate falls to me.
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Why did God cause the lot to fall to you all those years ago?
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There are generally three categories into which estate property, rights, and powers fall under the current Bankruptcy Code.
Academic text (2017) -
And you can still get vaccines free from clinics in the UK if you fall into these high risk groups.
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So this might fall largely on the CEO and the parental advisors.
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The post of a teaching assistant fell vacant in his department, and he was appointed to it.
Fiction book (1992) -
The responsibility of rearing the three Stetter girls fell on the shoulders of their maternal grandparents, Mary.
Academic text (1990) -
With Caesar trapped in Alexandria, the responsibility fell to his long time ally, Naeus Demetius Calvinus.
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The responsibility for the project will fall to the new team leader after the restructuring.
Synonyms
To give property or rights to another person
To give duties or power to others
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To accept what happens and not try to change the result
- Informal
To fail completely and feel embarrassed in front of others
Children often look and behave like their parents
- Informal
To react strongly because something is very funny or surprising
- Vulgar
To lose your balance and land on your backside in an awkward or embarrassing way
- Informal
Suddenly fail completely because it is weak or badly built
- Formal
To die as a Christian who trusts in God and expects life after death
To keep trying after many failures no matter how often you fail
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Literature
An event in the Bible when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, lost their innocence, and left the Garden
- Specialized
A green or brown caterpillar with white stripes that eats tree leaves in autumn
A small European plant with yellow flowers that blooms in the fall and is now common in North America
- US
The time when day and night are almost the same length, marking the start of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere
- Literature
A Christian belief that people lose their innocence when they disobey God
- Specialized
A caterpillar that lives in large silk nests on tree branches and eats the leaves in late summer and fall
A bush that loses its leaves and has large cone-shaped flowers in fall
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Etymology
When a task or duty falls to someone, picture it dropping into their hands; the verb comes from old English feallan 'to fall'. So to fall to someone means it is given or comes to them.