/ · 1894 Brewer’s · R · Ride for a Fall (To)
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To ride a race and lose it intentionally.
“There were not wanting people who said that government had ‘ridden for a fall,ʹ in their despair of carrying out their policy.”—Newspaper paragraph, November, 1885.
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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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