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Definition of fall to phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

fall to

phrasal verb
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fall to somebody
  1. to become the duty or responsibility of somebody
    • With his partner away, all the work now fell to him.
    • it falls to somebody to do something It fell to me to inform her of her son's death.
fall to something
  1. (literary) to begin to do something fall to doing something
    • She fell to brooding about what had happened to her.
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