to fall through
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4.1
- phrasal verb
- /fɔl θru/
- What? - Looks like the deal fell through.
- a deal fell through
- fall through the cracks
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Watch on YouTubeAll of this, that bad timing, the plans falling through, the approach, the avoidance, the dance.
- All of this, that bad timing, the plans falling through, the approach, the avoidance, the dance.
- And then if that sale of your residence doesn't, you know, falls through, then you would be in breach of the contract.
- But so I was really close to winning that deal, but it fell through.
- Exit deals regarding trade have fallen through.
- But then my funding fell through like a week before I was meant to apply for my visa.
- And in that we have plans to do current football players that day, and those plans fall through.
- After lots and lots of negotiation and and and and kind of going through the process, it fell through.
- Qualcomm has made it clear that it intends to invest in ARM should the deal with NVIDIA fall through the cracks.
- And, you know, I had him lined up for a couple times and then it just kind of fell through.
- They want me to go the safe route of, you know, security, having a degree just in case things fall through.
- But since Yasu was deposed a few months later, any plans for cooperation with Ethiopia simply fell through.
- But like when when our movie got into post production, like at one point, all of our financing fell through.
Examples
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- Um, so the place that I was gonna get just fell through.
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The Dickens deal fell through.
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Sometimes plans fall through, even when you do everything right.
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Deal after deal fell through.
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Well, I did have other plans this summer, but they fell through, so I quit my job and I left my mom a note.
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High Tone was interested for a while, but that kind of fell through.
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But then my funding fell through like a week before I was meant to apply for my visa.
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That agreement fell through and the debt still hasn't been paid.
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Unfortunately, it now looks like that deal could fall through as Sharp's stock price continues dropping.
Blog text (12) -
Sometimes plans fall through, even when you do everything right.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not succeed in doing something you wanted to do
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6.8
To fail completely because of problems with plans or projects
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7.9
To fail completely
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7.2
To fail to get the result you planned in an attempt or plan
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Morphology
The meaning 'to fail to happen or be completed' is loosely connected to 'fall' (something going wrong or collapsing) but is not directly deducible from 'through' as provided; the phrasal-verb sense is a conventionalized extension rather than a straightforward composition. This pattern of particle verbs is partly transparent but variable across languages and contexts, so a B1 learner who only knows the parts would likely only partially guess the meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
The phrasal verb fall through gives a simple picture: something falls and goes through a hole so it never reaches the other side. That's why it now means 'to fail' or 'not happen'.