fall to
phrasal verbfall to somebody
- 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.
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fall to something
- (literary) to begin to do something fall to doing something
- She fell to brooding about what had happened to her.