/ · 1894 Brewer’s · F · Fall to (To)
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To begin [eating, fighting, etc.].
“They sat down … . and without waiting … fell to like commoners after grace.”—Kane: Arctic Explorations, vol. i. chap. xxx. p. 419.
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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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