fall on sb
— phrasal verb with fall uk/fɔːl/us/fɑːl/verb fell, fallen
When suspicion falls on a particular person, people think that they may be guilty of doing something bad:
He was the last person to see the woman alive, and suspicion immediately fell on him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Guessing, supposing and suspecting
- approximate
- as much idiom
- call
- conjecture
- consider
- deem
- divine
- fall
- jump
- jump to conclusions idiom
- mark
- mark sb down as sth
- misjudge
- pluck
- pluck sth out of the air idiom
- presume
- smell
- speculate
- think
- think of sth/sb
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