/ · 1894 Brewer’s · F · Fall Out (To)
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To quarrel; to happen. (Latin, accĭdo.) (See Fall In.)
“Three children sliding on the ice
Upon a summer’s day;
As it fell out they all fell in,
The rest they ran away.”
Porson: Mother Goose.
“See ye fall not out by the way.”—Genesis xiv. 24.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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