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Fall to (To)

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To begin [eating, fighting, etc.].

“They sat down … . and without waiting … fell to like commoners after grace.”—Kane: Arctic Explorations, vol. i. chap. xxx. p. 419.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Fall Away (To)
Fall Flat (To)
Fall Foul
Fall From (To)
Fall In (To)
Fall Off (To)
Fall Out (To)
Fall Sick (To)
Fall Through (To)
Fall to (To)
Fall Under (To)
Fall Upon (To)
Fall in With (To)
Fall into a Snare (To)
Fall of Man (The)
Fall of the Drop (The)
Fall Out of (To)
Fall Short of (To)
Fall Together by the Ears (To)
Fall Upon One’s Feet (To)