TO FALL ON

Definition: TO FALL ON

TO FALL ON

1. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. ``Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.'' --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. ``Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.'' --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modern Usage: TO FALL ON

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Maybe if that fat lump would have given this a squeeze, he'd have remembered to fall on his fat ass. (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves)
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Modern Translation: TO FALL ON

Language		Translations for "TO FALL ON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		ráesik (fall on, to fall over, to fall upon, to land), nekitámad (huff, to close with, to fall upon, to fly in the face of, to go for, to make for, to turn upon), nekiesik (fall on, to assail, to come at, to fall to, to fall upon, to go at it baldheaded, to set upon). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay allfay onay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO FALL ON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-l-l-n-o-o-t"
	-2 letters: fontal.
	-3 letters: afoot, allot, aloft, aloof, atoll, float, flota, llano, loofa, notal, talon, tolan, tonal.
	-4 letters: alto, fall, fano, flan, flat, foal, font, fool, foot, loaf, loan, loft, loof, loon, loot, lota, nolo, nota, olla, onto, tall, tola, toll, tool, toon.
	-5 letters: aft, all, alt, ant, fan, fat, fon, lat, loo, lot, noo, not.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-l-l-n-o-o-t"
	+4 letters: flocculation, unifoliolate.
	+5 letters: flocculations, jollification, mollification, tablespoonful.
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