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Fall for   /fɔl fɔr/   Listen
Fall for

verb
1.
Fall in love with; become infatuated with.
2.
Be deceived, duped, or entrapped by.  "He fell for the con man's story"





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"Fall for" Quotes from Famous Books



... do his spring's work with the cattle, then turn them off, fatten them, and sell them in the fall for enough to pay the mortgage. Mother said all she could to prevent it, for she could not bear the idea of having her home mortgaged. It seemed actually awful to me, for I thought we should not be able to pay it, and in all probability we should lose the place. ...
— The Bark Covered House • William Nowlin
... numbered from the beginning? Are our hairs numbered, and our days forgotten—till death gives a hint to the doctor? He was sorry for his past life, and thoroughly ashamed of much of it, saying in all honesty he would rather die than fall for one solitary week into the old ways—not that he wished to die, for, with the confidence of youth, he did not believe he could fall into the old ways again. For my part, I think he was taken away to have a little more of ...
— Mary Marston • George MacDonald
... moisture. The sky is cloudy, and we have seen how badly the fruits of southern Europe succeed. In central Chile, on the other hand, a little northward of Concepcion, the sky is generally clear, rain does not fall for the seven summer months, and southern European fruits succeed admirably; and even the sugar-cane has been cultivated. (11/12. Miers's "Chile" volume 1 page 415. It is said that the sugar-cane grew ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin
... catch, he held it low down—a repetition of what he did unto Mr. Lyttelton when they played for Harrow and Eton. Mr. Lyttelton had scored 20, but not in his best manner. There were now three wickets to fall for 60; Oxford seemed to have the advantage. Sims and Patterson had added 14 (40 to win), when a heavy shower came down, lasted for an hour and a half, and left Oxford with a wet ball and a slippery ground. The rain, ...
— The True Story Book • Andrew Lang
... of manly suitors were patterned slightly on your model; it piqued me, I admit, that you didn't seem to fall for a little romance with me, as many suitors ...
— Penny of Top Hill Trail • Belle Kanaris Maniates


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