caer
drop ; fall ; tumble ; slump ; take + a tumble.
The search profile will only be modified periodically as the quality of the set of notifications output from the search drops to unacceptable levels.
There may be pale drip marks in the neighbourhood of the tranchefiles, where drops of water fell from the deckle or from the maker's hand on to the new-made sheet.
The form this 'hypothesis' has come to take is easily dismissed as a straw figure and serious consideration of the relation between language diversity and thinking has largely tumbled with it.
The copy was grubby from use, a paperback with a photographically realistic full-color painting on its cover of an early teenage boy slumped in what looked to me like a corner of a very dirty back alley, a can of Coke in his hand.
Tourism takes a tumble in Australia due to the global credit crunch.
al caer la noche
at nightfall
At nightfall, drop anchor at any place that catch your fancy and the lullaby of the gentle waves put you to sleep.
caer aguanieve
sleet
It doesn't really matter which day of the week it is, or if it's lashing it down with rain, sleet or snow, there's always going to be a crowd.
caer al vacío
fall into + the void
fall into + (empty) space
In the commotion, Jehan Baig lost his footing and fell into the void.
People thought that the world was flat and one would fall into space if you sailed over the horizon.
caer bajo el hechizo de
fall under + the spell of
Experts confirmed this week that the U.S. populace appears to have fallen under the spell of yet another pink-faced half-wit.
caer bajo el poder de
fall under + the power of
By the fortune of war, they fell under the power of the British army.
caer bajo el yugo de
fall under + the power of
By the fortune of war, they fell under the power of the British army.
caer bajo + Posesivo + influencia
come under + Posesivo + influence
Like most of Mrs. Eddy's disciples, he had led a quiet, uneventful life until he came under her influence.
caer bajo sospecha
fall under + suspicion
Bennett fell under suspicion and was arrested and charged.
caer bien
sit + well (with)
go down + well with
cotton (on) to
Although football pools were immediately popular with the public, they did not sit well with the establishment.
The recent High Court verdict banning hookah parlours has not gone down well with hoteliers in the city.
He was a most affable bloke, and she cottoned on to him right away.
caer como anillo al dedo
fit like + a glove
Your boots must fit like a glove and be as comfy as your running shoes.
caer como chinches
drop like + flies
Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.
caer como moscas
drop like + flies
Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.
caer de cabeza
go over + Posesivo + head
The donkey turned a corner suddenly and Blucher went over his head.
caer de espaldas
fall on + Posesivo + back
When I saw what he was up to, I drew back for a punch and hit him so hard on the nose that he fell on his back and lay there for some time, so that his wife stood over him and cried out 'Mercy! You've done my husband in!'.
caer dentro
fall in
Vincent, another of the sailors, also had a narrow shave, he did not fall in but his bag did.
caer dentro de
fall within/into
fall into
The user then receives, on a regular basis, notifications of new documents or information which fall within the topic specified in his profile.
Suddenly, the smell struck his nostrils - the pungency of processed corn syrup, as if the car had gone off the road and fallen into the neck of a gigantic bottle of syrup.
caer dentro de la competencia de
be the province of
fall within + the province of
The bibliographical control of such items is the province of in-house indexing.
They do not fall within the province of the common auxiliaries, nor are they all directly enumerated in class 911 as compound subjects.
caer de nuevo
fall again
Unfortunately, it seems like she's falling again into what caused all her sadness.
caer de pie
land on + Posesivo + (own two) feet
fall on + Posesivo + feet
He thought he had landed on his feet when he got a job at a large and prestigious firm, but he soon discovered there was more to the job than he imagined.
However it seems the he has fallen on his feet with a promising career ahead of him that all started from a karaoke night.
caer de rodillas
fall to + Posesivo + knees
She fell to her knees, the water now lapping at her midriff.
caer deshecho [Coloquial]
flake out
After dancing his heart out for an hour or two, and drinking more beers than he should, he flaked out earlier than most.
caer desplomado
slump in + a heap
One day she indulged in her habit of swigging too much gin before going to feed the porker and after opening its pen she slumped in a heap.
caer en
run + foul of
lapse into
slip into
slide into
Although Limburg's attempt to cover such a wide range of issues is commendable, he runs foul of the dangers of simplistic diatribe and superficiality.
Although he occasionally lapses into a sort of clotted prose, his book is a valuable study of McLuhan's cultural and geographical context.
If the economy slips into recession then the government may decide to stimulate the economy with massive spending.
I surmise that Slake will start in the hard-edged reality of modern urban life before sliding ineluctably into the darkling land of Hereafter.
caer en barbecho
fall on + barren ground
fall on + fallow ground
Among the many seminal ideas which flowed from Freud's fertile pen, there was one which appears to have fallen on barren ground - the concept of an inherent death instinct in man.
Without these skills, most policies and action plans will fall on fallow ground.
caer en batalla
fall in + battle
Whole cities laid to waste, heroes falling in battle, death of gods, the works!.
caer en combate
fall in + action
The three soldiers have been declared fallen in action, but the return of their bodies is considered a national priority.
caer en decadencia
go into + a decline
fall into + decline
America is going into a decline the like of which the world has never seen before.
After the Romans left, the city of London fell into a decline.
caer en descrédito
come into + disrepute
fall into + disrepute
As a result public libraries came into disrepute and even today authorities speak against them.
By the fifteenth century the practice of uroscopy was falling into disrepute.
caer en desgracia
fall from + grace
fall into + disfavour
tumble into + disgrace
come into + disrepute
fall into + disrepute
be in the doghouse
fall + foul of
lose + favour
fall into + disgrace
fall out of + favour
She probably hasn't told you, Blanche, because after all you're her boss, and she can't afford to fall from grace.
The printed catalogue has fallen into disfavour, and been replaced by card catalogues, and, more recently, on-line catalogues.
In conversing with her you hadn't got to tread lightly and warily, lest at any moment you might rupture the relationship, and tumble into eternal disgrace.
As a result public libraries came into disrepute and even today authorities speak against them.
By the fifteenth century the practice of uroscopy was falling into disrepute.
This video shows what happens when a guy bought his girlfriend the wrong gift and ended up in the doghouse.
The author attempts to unravel the mystery of how Microsoft came to fall foul of the Department of Justice.
However, and despite its popular currency, this perspective has largely lost favour in academic circles.
Once a popular heavyweight champion, he rapidly achieved success but this was only equaled with the speed which he fell into disgrace.
At first he was a close political advisor to Charles II, although he later fell out of favour and was forced into exile.
caer en desuso
fall into + disuse
fall out of + fashion
go out of + use
lapse
fall into + disfavour
die out
drop from + sight
go out of + favour
pass away
fall into + desuetude
fall into + desuetude
pass into + desuetude
sink into + desuetude
sink into + oblivion
fall out of + favour
However, from the sixties, competition for the railway worker's leisure time from public libraries, service clubs and the humble television meant that many branch libraries fell into disuse.
Rotundas were widely used for all but the most formal texts in the fifteenth century, but fell out of fashion during the sixteenth century, surviving longest in Spain.
The English, French, and Dutch bastardas went out of use by the mid sixteenth century.
The Act was finally allowed to lapse in 1695 and the Stationers' Company was unable to protect its members' rights against those who chose to infringe them.
The printed catalogue has fallen into disfavour, and been replaced by card catalogues, and, more recently, on-line catalogues.
These changes accelerated through much of the nineteenth century, with the older material such as the chivalric romance dying out about the 1960s.
The older material, such as the chivalric romances, dropped from sight.
The author follows the history through to the point, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, when mirror-image monograms went out of favour and were replaced by straightforward monograms.
These tools are useable for analytical studies of how technologies emerge, mature and pass away.
Probably only one in a hundred girls who give birth clandestinely even knows that an edict of King Henry II, now fallen into desuetude, once made their action punishable by death.
Probably only one in a hundred girls who give birth clandestinely even knows that an edict of King Henry II, now fallen into desuetude, once made their action punishable by death.
To make a very long story unacceptably short, espionage passed into desuetude after the Reagan years.
It is clear now that after a time, with her marriage sinking into desuetude, Vivien entered into a sexual relationship with Russell.
Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
At first he was a close political advisor to Charles II, although he later fell out of favour and was forced into exile.
caer en el error de
fall into + the error of
blunder into
Behavioral scientists have fallen into the error of assuming that employees resent job structuring and autocratic leadership.
Australia risks blundering into a human rights mess that will exacerbate the conflict.
caer en el olvido
fall into + obscurity
fall into + oblivion
fade into + obscurity
fade into + oblivion
blow over
The acid rain literature illustrated the 1st paradigm, where journals from the unadjusted literature were thrust forward in the adjusted literature, and no unadjusted journal fell into obscurity.
The whole civilization, having lost both past and future, would finally find itself on the verge of collapsing and falling into oblivion.
But he may be put under house arrest, a dire fate for a man who is terrified of fading into obscurity.
The music industry as we know it is slowly fading into oblivion.
During the bulk of that time, your liberal leaders grandly sat, waiting for various things to blow over.
caer enfermo
become + ill
fall + ill
get + sick
come down with
go down with
However, many attempts to actively involve the community in reducing its risks of becoming ill have met with failure.
The largest group of metaphors compared firms to living (especially human) beings: companies are born, fall ill, have children, die, etc.
When some of the parrots got sick, he nursed them back to health, and they in turn brought him back to life.
Gulf War vets are coming down with these symptoms at twice the rate of vets from previous conflicts.
These are the things you need to find out in order to stand the best chance of not going down with a cold or the flu.
caer en forma de cascada
cascade
This project is designed to provide a network of practising librarians with a programme in educational methods and skills which can then be disseminated, or 'cascaded', to a wider network of professional colleagues.
caer en gracia
take + a fancy to
take + a shine to
take + a liking to
cotton (on) to
He is a collector who wants to form a collection by making his own paintings of pictures he has taken a fancy to in other people's houses.
She took a shine to Sheldon, and before he knows what has happened, the misanthropic physicist finds himself with a girlfriend.
He quickly took a liking to American clothing stores and acquired a taste for fast-food restaurants.
He was a most affable bloke, and she cottoned on to him right away.
caer en la cuenta
dawn on
wise up
the penny dropped
suss (out)
twig
come to + the realisation
It dawned on her that what she was doing might be a mistake, and she began to think of how best to extricate herself.
The article 'Cataloguing electronic resources: wise up or dumb down?' argues that WWW search engines do a good job in impossibly difficult circumstances but that they do not provide enough information about a resource.
It was only when I saw Ron's car outside Penny's house that the penny finally dropped and I realised they were having an affair.
He was incredulous when he sussed that the noises came from bona-fide gibbons.
Sometimes the police tolerated them for a bit but sometimes they came down on them like a ton of bricks as soon as they twigged what they were up to.
So today I just came to the realization that I've been jinxed somewhere along the way in my life.
caer en la cuenta de
realise [realize, -USA]
wise up to
It should be realized, in addition, that the question involves not only serials but other works that are generally intended to be issued indefinitely in successive editions.
Businesses are finally startiing to wise up to the power of the social network.
caer en la cuenta (de)
cotton on (to)
We failed to cotton on to the economic essential that owning stuff isn't productive, making stuff is.
caer en la nada
fall into + the void
fall into + (empty) space
In the commotion, Jehan Baig lost his footing and fell into the void.
People thought that the world was flat and one would fall into space if you sailed over the horizon.
caer en la oscuridad
fall into + obscurity
sink into + oblivion
sink into + obscurity
fade into + obscurity
fade into + oblivion
The acid rain literature illustrated the 1st paradigm, where journals from the unadjusted literature were thrust forward in the adjusted literature, and no unadjusted journal fell into obscurity.
Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
Some of them enjoy loyal followings within Russia while others briefly shone before sinking into obscurity.
But he may be put under house arrest, a dire fate for a man who is terrified of fading into obscurity.
The music industry as we know it is slowly fading into oblivion.
caer en las garras de
fall + prey to
fall under + the power of
fall into + the clutches of
Administrators all too easily fall prey to the siren song of cost reduction, especially if phrases like innovation are employed as harmonic accompaniment.
By the fortune of war, they fell under the power of the British army.
Would you rather fall into the clutches of an evil genius or an evil moron?.
caer en las manos de
make + Posesivo + way into the hands of
A number of these rifles made their way across the Atlantic and into the hands of Confederate sharpshooters.
caer en la tentación
fall into + temptation
So don't fall into the temptation of thinking that more is always better.
caer en la trampa
fall into + the trap
fall for + it
fall into + the snare
It is very easy to fall into the trap of enjoying the act of telling stories and reading aloud so much that the children never get a chance to read themselves.
The classic form of April fool hoax is to present an improbable situation in such a convincing way that people fall for it on the spur of the moment but later cannot understand why they did so.
Perhaps guided by caprice or a dream, we all can fall into the snares of destiny without realizing it = Quizás guiados por un capricho o por un sueño, todos podemos caer en las trampas del destino sin darnos cuenta.
caer en manos de
fall into + the hands of
I would rather a great book or a great picture fell into the hands of the corporation than into the hands of an individual.
caer en manos enemigas
fall into + enemy hands
Crucial information too important to be allowed to appear in periodicals, which might fall into enemy hands, was printed in the form of individual papers in a limited number of copies.
caer en oídos sordos
fall (up)on + deaf ears
meet + deaf ears
I realize that our pleas are no doubt continuing to fall on deaf ears at Thomson.
The same argument on the part of librarians met deaf ears.
caer en picada
plummet
The costs of retrieval and distribution of information have plummeted and may be further reduced in future.
caer en picada al suelo
plummet to + the ground
Police said a paraglider pilot died Sunday evening after his paraglider suddenly plummeted to the ground.
caer en picado
plummet
swoop
take + a nosedive
nosedive
The costs of retrieval and distribution of information have plummeted and may be further reduced in future.
Magpies are very protective of their young and may swoop on intruders if they feel threatened.
His career took a nosedive after he piddled from his hotel balcony onto a passing parade led by the President.
As the economy has nosedived, hospitals have seen their uncollected debt increase - from low, single digits to more than 5 percent.
caer en picado al suelo
plummet to + the ground
Police said a paraglider pilot died Sunday evening after his paraglider suddenly plummeted to the ground.
caer (en) redondo [Coloquial]
flake out
lose + Posesivo + consciousness
pass out
keel over
crash out
After dancing his heart out for an hour or two, and drinking more beers than he should, he flaked out earlier than most.
The bleed was so severe that she almost lost her consciousness and had to be hospitalised for 10 weeks.
He fell from his stool, passing out.
If I was running at a dead sprint going full tilt, I do not think I could make it much more than maybe one mile before I would keel over.
After that we just crashed out on the beach and soaked up the sun.
caer en terreno baldío
fall on + barren ground
fall on + fallow ground
Among the many seminal ideas which flowed from Freud's fertile pen, there was one which appears to have fallen on barren ground - the concept of an inherent death instinct in man.
Without these skills, most policies and action plans will fall on fallow ground.
caer en terreno pedregoso
fall on + stony ground
It is scarcely possible for departments of library studies to offer courses in humility, or enthusiasm, or persistence, still less to set examinations in them, and simple exhortations to such virtues might today fall on stony ground.
caer en una broma
fall for + a joke
fall for + it
Some people understood the joke and laughed, others fell for the joke and took it seriously.
The classic form of April fool hoax is to present an improbable situation in such a convincing way that people fall for it on the spur of the moment but later cannot understand why they did so.
caer en una trampa
tumble into + pitfall
Life is full of pitfalls, into which the innocent often tumble.
caer en un hábito
lapse into + habit
Employees must call upon the services of the librarians and not lapse into 'do-it-yourself' habits.
caer fuera de
fall outside
lie beyond
These issues demonstrably fall outside the likely preoccupations of IT-based information specialists with organisational concerns.
We have excluded consideration of the many applications of the computer in pre- and post-coordinate indexing as lying beyond the limits and objectives of this particular course.
caer fuera del alcance de
fall outside + the scope of
An in-depth discussion about most elements of developing library plans fall outside the scope of this article.
caer fuera de las responsabilidades de
be on the outer fringes of
Of course, this is on the outer fringes of reference work as such, but librarians should at least be aware that people frequently find counsel and support and encouragement more effective than the supply of specific information to help solve their problems.
caer fuera del interés de
lie outside + the scope of
Consideration of PRECIS and the chain procedure lies outside the scope of this particular volume.
caer fuera del interés de uno
fall outside + Posesivo + interest
The description of documents in catalogue entries is called descriptive cataloguing and this also falls outside our present interest.
caer fuera del objetivo de
fall outside + the scope of
An in-depth discussion about most elements of developing library plans fall outside the scope of this article.
caer hecho polvo [Coloquial]
flake out
After dancing his heart out for an hour or two, and drinking more beers than he should, he flaked out earlier than most.
caer mal
rub + Nombre + up the wrong way
Relations between the two countries would now be difficult as our Prime Minister had rubbed theirs up the wrong way over ridiculous matters.
caer mejor
fit + best
Nelson and Tague suggest that a rank distribution best fits the distribution of terms used to index journal papers.
caer muerto
flop down
crash out
I'm 10 weeks pregnant with my second baby and have an awful habit of flopping down hard into chairs and on couches.
After that we just crashed out on the beach and soaked up the sun.
caer por selección [Proceso por el que se seleccionan fichas de un paquete mediante la inserción de una aguja o agujas por las perforaciones que presentan las fichas y que representan materias]
drop
If the three concepts in our example were distributed along three edges of the cards concerned, then documents on Poetry would be dropped if the pack were needled at the appropiate hole.
caer presa de
fall + prey to
be prey of
Administrators all too easily fall prey to the siren song of cost reduction, especially if phrases like innovation are employed as harmonic accompaniment.
Librarians need not fear that they will be prey to increases in postal rates if the introduce this scheme.
caer rendido
flop down
crash out
I'm 10 weeks pregnant with my second baby and have an awful habit of flopping down hard into chairs and on couches.
After that we just crashed out on the beach and soaked up the sun.
caerse
fall out
fall off
tumble down
topple over
come + a cropper
go down
fall over
take + a tumble
fall down
In time, however, the rubber on which these gurta percha (or caoutchouc) bindings depended perished, and the leaves fell out.
The article has the title 'Bringing the mountain to Mohammed without falling off the cliff of unmanageable technology'.
The article has the title 'The walls come tumbling down'.
Make use of book supports on shelves to prevent books toppling over or falling to the floor.
With the rain, the limestone rocks and stiles were very slippy and at least one of our party came a cropper.
It doesn't take a wild imagination to grasp what happens to a rider who crashes with protective gear on and one who goes down in street clothes.
The sack race and three-legged race have been banned from a school sports day because the children might fall over and hurt themselves.
He took a tumble to the bottom and hit the railing at the end.
By the time I got to the tower I was shivering and drenched in snow after falling down several times on the slippery ice.
caerse a
topple onto
Many kinds of book supports are marketed and these ensure that books remain upright on the shelves and do not topple onto the floor.
caerse al suelo
fall down
fall to + the ground
By the time I got to the tower I was shivering and drenched in snow after falling down several times on the slippery ice.
When he fell to the ground, out of nowhere, a woman rushed to his side and embraced him.
caerse a pedazos
fall to + pieces
fall to + bits
One must accept that it is impossible to satisfy all people all the time; this author has seen several prison librarians fall to pieces, while the librarian was drowning in details.
If you leave it there for a few months, your bike will rust, perish and fall to bits.
caerse bien
hit it off
As the two began to connect well and hit it off, the contact between the two increased to a rate of at least once a week.
caerse colándose por
fall through
A newborn baby has fallen through the toilet on a moving train after being prematurely born.
caerse de
fall off of
fall out (of)
So, even if one of the many libraries falls off of the information food chain in some way, the others will be always be there for us.
Rods may hold the cards in the drawer and stops may prevent drawers from falling out the cabinet.
caerse de bruces
fall + flat on + Posesivo + face
Like the bear who could take it or could leave it alone, we may find that if we lean over too far backwards we might as well fall flat on our face.
caerse de la cama
roll out of + bed
She had very hard floors in her room at the time and I was worried about her rolling out of bed and hitting her head.
caerse dentro
fall in
Vincent, another of the sailors, also had a narrow shave, he did not fall in but his bag did.
caerse de + Posesivo + pedestal
go down in + Posesivo + estimation
She went down in their estimation when the truth came out.
caerse de rodillas
go down on + Posesivo + knees
At the same time she grabbed him by the nuts for a couple of seconds which got him paralysed and made him go down on his knees.
caerse en pedazos
fall to + bits
fall to + pieces
If you leave it there for a few months, your bike will rust, perish and fall to bits.
One must accept that it is impossible to satisfy all people all the time; this author has seen several prison librarians fall to pieces, while the librarian was drowning in details.
caerse hacia atrás
fall + backwards
fall over + backwards
Halfway through the prayer he screamed and fell backwards, smashing his head open on a rock.
The incident happened after the woman fell over backwards onto the escalator and was dragged up.
caerse hacia delante
fall forward
He fell forward smashing his head against the metal frame of the bed.
caérsele la baba por
go + gaga (over)
salivate at/over
Indonesians people should not go gaga over Obama and the fact he once lived in Indonesia.
A little over a year ago everyone was salivating over him and now, nothing.
caerse muerto
drop + (stone) dead
He dropped dead of a heart attack in 1959 at a screening of the film version of his only best-selling novel because he was outraged at the producers' interpretation of his work.
caerse por
fall down
A man who fell down an uncovered drain and was stuck for three hours today spoke of his ordeal.
caerse redondo [Coloquial]
keel over
flake out
lose + Posesivo + consciousness
pass out
If I was running at a dead sprint going full tilt, I do not think I could make it much more than maybe one mile before I would keel over.
After dancing his heart out for an hour or two, and drinking more beers than he should, he flaked out earlier than most.
The bleed was so severe that she almost lost her consciousness and had to be hospitalised for 10 weeks.
He fell from his stool, passing out.
caer sobre
fall onto
It appeared that the digger came loose on the trailer and fell onto the stone wall.
caer un chaparrón
the skies + open up
Reddy launched his party's election campaign even as the skies opened up.
caer un diluvio
the skies + open up
Reddy launched his party's election campaign even as the skies opened up.
cayéndose a pedazos
disintegrating
For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
comprar hasta caer muerto
shop 'til you drop
The article is entitled 'Shop 'til your modem drops. Internet shopping network is making strides as it learns how to sell in cyberspace'.
dejar caer [De modo brusco]
drop
dump
The personnel officer of a factory drops a stack of a few thousand employee cards into a selecting machine and produces in a short time a list of all employees who live in Trenton and know Spanish.
The books may simply be laid before the librarian as they are found, 'dumped in his lap', as one writer puts it.
dejar caer insinuaciones
throw + hints
drop + hints
make + innuendos
Now it is the turn of Libya to throw hints that it too needs to be mollycoddled.
This story is now just a silly joke between my husband and I about the uselessness of me dropping hints to him.
He repeatedly comments on my appearance, makes sexual innuendoes, and touches me.
dejar caer que
let + it drop that
He was as usual talking about himself and his work when he let it drop that no female writer could ever be his equal.
dejar caer una indirecta
drop + a hint
Presidents who manage by dropping hints sometimes devise little tests to see if their executives can read their minds.
dejarse caer
drop by
drop in
slump
droop
mosey
pop by
pop in
nip in
flop down
crash out
'Now, whenever you want to see me about anything between these get-togethers,' she resumed, 'don't hesitate to drop by anytime'.
The library needs to be developed as the focal point of the community, a place where the public can drop in for all kinds of activities, not necessarily book-related or 'cultural'.
The copy was grubby from use, a paperback with a photographically realistic full-color painting on its cover of an early teenage boy slumped in what looked to me like a corner of a very dirty back alley, a can of Coke in his hand.
Four performers tied to bungees swing, droop and fly in the air in ways that defy gravity.
It's quite amusing to watch her mosey around in what appear to be over-sized clown shoes.
My wife's nephew popped by yesterday and drank us out of apple juice.
Came past this place with a group of friends and decided to pop in quickly - we ended up staying pretty much all night and had a great time.
We were on our way to the market and decided to nip in here for a quick late lunch.
I'm 10 weeks pregnant with my second baby and have an awful habit of flopping down hard into chairs and on couches.
After that we just crashed out on the beach and soaked up the sun.
dejarse caer por casa
drop in
pop by
pop in
nip in
The library needs to be developed as the focal point of the community, a place where the public can drop in for all kinds of activities, not necessarily book-related or 'cultural'.
My wife's nephew popped by yesterday and drank us out of apple juice.
Came past this place with a group of friends and decided to pop in quickly - we ended up staying pretty much all night and had a great time.
We were on our way to the market and decided to nip in here for a quick late lunch.
empezar a caer en picado
hit + the skids
be on the skids
Economic data released Friday in Tokyo leaves no doubt that Japan's economy has hit the skids.
But will Barack Obama dare to touch this sacred cow that seems as American as apple pie - especially now, when the housing market is on the skids?.
estar a punto de caer enfermo
be sickening for
Most parents know instinctively when their child is sickening for something: the child may not be as lively as usual; he may refuse his food; he may become clingy.
hacer caer
oust
These sources which form the basis of the intellectual selection of terms may be augmented by or ousted by the machine selection of terms.
hacer caer al suelo estrepitosamente
send + Nombre + sprawling
They stepped out of the room and he punched her in the face, sending her sprawling and giving her a black eye that lasted for the rest of the tour.
hacer caer de rodillas
bring + Nombre + to + Posesivo + knees
Showing a happy and fulfilled facade, she is hiding a dark secret that could eventually bring her to her knees.
lo que en la primavera crece en otoño se cae
spring forward and fall backwards
Many people may be familiar with hearing 'spring forward and fall backwards,' so that in the Spring, clocks move forward one hour and in the Fall, clocks move back one hour.
maná caído del cielo
manna from heaven
A brief selection of possible scientific explanations for a number of biblical miracles - Noah's flood, the parting of the Red Sea, the burning bush, the ten plagues, manna from heaven, and the raising of Lazarus - is provided.
no caer bien
not take + kindly to
Although microcomputers are relatively robust, they do not take kindly to frequent moves from one location to another, particularly on wheeled trollies.
no caer en buenas manos
fall into + the wrong hands
Traditionally, placing information in print, CD-ROM or online database format runs the risk of the information falling into the wrong hands or of being illicitly copied.
noche + caer
night + fall
Finally, as night fell, we reached our last destination.
no tener donde caerse muerto
not have two pennies to rub together
down-and-out
Their poor mother worked herself to the ground all day long, didn't have two pennies to rub together, and they were always just a little bit hungry.
The story is based on an overheard conversation between a well-meaning librarian and a down-and-out old man seeking validation for his unpublished poetry.
palabras + caer en + saco roto
words + fall on + deaf ears
But her words fell on deaf ears: The two employees remained adamant - either Florence worked overtime too, or they would not.
precio + caer
price + fall
Milk powder prices fell for a second month as production in Europe and the US increased and concerns eased that drought would reduce global supplies.
recesión + caer en
recession + set in
Some would say that Britain managed to get into the Community in the nick of time, before the recession set in.
salirse y caerse
fall out (of)
Rods may hold the cards in the drawer and stops may prevent drawers from falling out the cabinet.
sistema + caerse
system + crash
Accessibility is also related to the problems which may occur if an automated system 'crashes', ie fails, for some reason, especially if this is an online system = La accesibilidad también tiene que ver con los problemas que pueden surgir si un sistema automatizado se viene abajo, es decir, dejar de funcionar, por alguna razón, especialmente si se trata de un sistema online.
telón + caer
curtain + fall
The third act is of course the denouement, when everything is made clear, all the loose ends are tied up, and the curtain falls.
trabajar hasta caer muerto
work + Reflexivo + to the ground
work + Reflexivo + to death
Their poor mother worked herself to the ground all day long, didn't have two pennies to rub together, and they were always just a little bit hungry.
The deportees died in part starving and freezing to death in concentration camps and in part working themselves to death under a barbaric police regimen.
volver a caer
fall again
Unfortunately, it seems like she's falling again into what caused all her sadness.
volver a caer (en)
relapse (into)
In these circumstances it is easy to relapse into 'scientism' and mistake means for ends = En estas circunstancias es fácil recaer en el "cientifismo" y confundir los medios por los fines.
