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Fall out   /fɔl aʊt/   Listen
Fall out

verb
1.
Have a breach in relations.
2.
Come as a logical consequence; follow logically.  Synonym: follow.  "The theorem falls out nicely"
3.
Come off.  Synonym: come out.
4.
Leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation.
5.
Come to pass.  Synonyms: come about, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place.  "The meeting took place off without an incidence" , "Nothing occurred that seemed important"






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"Fall out" Quotes from Famous Books



... now from the fire, Pomp and I, each with a roasting-stick in one hand, his knife in the other, cutting off the juicy brown bits, and eating them with the greatest of gusto, after an incision had been made, and the whole of the hardened interior had been allowed to fall out into ...
— Mass' George - A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah • George Manville Fenn

... dancing in his leather pocket, at every step; and, let us confess it, every time that D'Artagnan found himself in such conditions tenderness was not his dominant vice. "Come," said he, "I cannot think the expedition a very dangerous one; and it will fall out with my voyage as with that piece M. Monk took me to see in London, which was called, I ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... new light in Sir Edward Hamley's more recent compendium. As the years roll on the number of survivors diminishes in an increasing ratio, nor does one hear of anything valuable left behind by those who fall out of the thinning ranks. The reader of the period, in default of any other authority, betakes himself to Kinglake. There are those who term Kinglake's volumes romance rather than history—or, more mildly, the romance of history. But this is ...
— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes

... something in the affair; True, he was absent, and, 't was rumour'd, took But small concern about the when, or where, Or what his consort did: if he could brook Her gaieties, none had a right to stare: Theirs was that best of unions, past all doubt, Which never meets, and therefore can't fall out. ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron

... are taken from pots, water the pots some time in advance, and the ball of earth will fall out when the pot is inverted and tapped lightly. In taking up plants from the ground, it is advisable, also, to water them well some time before removing; the earth may then be held on the roots. See that the watering is done far enough in advance to allow the water ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey


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