if something falls on someone, it is their responsibility to do it
to start eating food or start using something as soon as it arrives, in a way that shows you want it very much
to take hold of someone suddenly, either to attack them or to hug them
Bricks fall on our head, don't they - there's a clear sky, then clunk, the brick.
Rhodes took an involuntary step backward, as though fearing the thing would fall on him.
She was so grateful she fell on him and kissed him.
The burden of caring for elderly parents often falls on women.
The man's blood must fall on the hearthstones of her mother's house for that mingling to be auspicious.
With dozens of insurers raking the ashes, rarely does the spotlight fall on a particular victim.
falls on
falling on
fell on
fallen on
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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