fall through

See also: fallthrough and fall-through

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Verb

fall through (third-person singular simple present falls through, present participle falling through, simple past fell through, past participle fallen through)

(intransitive, idiomatic) To be unsuccessful, abort, come to nothing/naught; to be cancelled; not to proceed.
Their plans to go hiking Saturday fell through because it rained.

Translations

French: tomber à l’eau (fr)

Hungarian: füstbe megy

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