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fall by

verb
  1. To visit unexpectedly; to arrive for a visit without an invitation. (colloquial, slang) · You have to fall by her house this afternoon.
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He called to her and earnestly begged her to come lower down, lest she fall by some mishap; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that the herbage was most tender.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 78 · B2
“To fall,” continued King Louis, who at the first glance had sounded the abyss on which the monarchy hung suspended,—“to fall, and learn of that fall by telegraph!
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 102 · C1

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