fall on
verb- To experience; to suffer; to fall upon. · With the rise of the Internet, some media fell on hard times.
- To be assigned to; to acquire a new responsibility, duty or burden; to fall to. · This decision is important, and it falls on you to make it.
- To occur on a particular day. · The first day of spring this year will fall on a Tuesday.
- Of the eyes or gaze: to alight upon.
From the library
Not one of these glances, nor one sigh, was lost on her; they might have been said to fall on the shield of Minerva, which some philosophers assert protected sometimes the breast of Sappho.
“Ridiculous?” repeated he; “and the ridicule will fall on me.
If any harm come of it, it should fall on the guilty person; and that, you know, is Fernand.
“The tears will fall on your green silk gown and spot it.”
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