fall into sth
— phrasal verb with fall uk/fɔːl/us/fɑːl/verb fell, fallen
(START)
to start doing something, often without intending to:
We've fallen into the habit of getting up late on Saturday mornings.
I fell into my job quite by accident.
She fell into a conversation with the taxi driver.
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Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick in
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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(BECOME)
to gradually get into a particular condition, especially to get into a bad condition as a result of not being taken care of:
Over the years the house had fallen into disrepair.
The old school fell into disuse (= people stopped using it).
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Experiencing difficulties
- be
- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- creek
- difficulty
- embattled
- flounder
- frying pan
- fumble
- leg
- out of the frying pan into the fire idiom
- patch
- pickle
- pressed
- pushed
- ride
- rocky road idiom
- thin
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