fall on
phrasal verbfall on/upon somebody/something [no passive] (especially British English)
- to attack or take hold of somebody/something with a lot of energy and enthusiasm
- They fell on him with sticks.
- The children fell on the food and ate it greedily.
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- to be the responsibility of somebody
- The full cost of the wedding fell on us.