to fall on
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3.0
- phrasal verb
- /fɔl ɑn/
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caer en
- There's a reason that we scheduled quote get rid of it day to fall on a Friday.
Examples
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Under the FCCC, the initial responsibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions falls on the major emitters of those gases.
Academic text (1997) -
We've at last drawn a line and published our findings, and it will now fall on Parliament to determine how it wishes to deal with them.
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Lena's birthday is gonna fall on the most powerful solstice in 5000 years.
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...in local news, 'tis the season to remind you of the annual Christmas pageant in the town of Emmanuel, which will actually fall on Christmas Day this year.
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Valentine's Day always falls on a Thursday.
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My birthday falls on Thanksgiving this year.
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Easter falls on a different date each spring.
Synonyms
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2.1
Happen at a particular time or place
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to happen on a particular day' is directly compositional: 'fall' understood as 'occur' plus the temporal preposition 'on' indicating date yields 'occur on [a date]'. This is a regular verb + temporal-preposition pattern that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Fall on gives the picture of something dropping and landing on a day in a calendar. Here fall is the dropping and on is the day where it lands. So when we say an event falls on a date, we mean it 'happens' on that day.