fall behind
— phrasal verb with fall uk/fɔːl/us/fɑːl/verb fell, fallen
to fail to do something fast enough or on time:
He was ill for six weeks and fell behind with his schoolwork.
I've fallen behind on the mortgage payments.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Failing and doing badly
- at-risk
- backbencher
- balls-up
- be running on empty idiom
- beat a dead horse idiom
- crack
- crash
- draw
- fail
- fall apart
- fray around/at the edges idiom
- fumble
- get off on the right/wrong foot idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- go against sb
- sink like a stone idiom 1
- sink like a stone
- so much for sth idiom
- stagnate
- strike out
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