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Fall out

verb

Have a breach in relations.

Come as a logical consequence; follow logically. Synonym: follow. "The theorem falls out nicely"

Come off. Synonym: come out.

Leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation.

Come to pass. Synonyms: come about, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place. "The meeting took place off without an incidence" , "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

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"Fall out" Quotes from Famous Books

... You haven't lived long. I don't want to climb into a fool's paradise only to fall out with ...

— Jewel - A Chapter In Her Life • Clara Louise Burnham

... apotheosis of the day-dreams of common men. His stories may be nourished with the realities of life, but their true mark is to satisfy the nameless longings of the reader, and to obey the ideal laws of the day-dream. The right kind of thing should fall out in the right kind of place; the right kind of thing should follow; and not only the characters talk aptly and think naturally, but all the circumstances in a tale answer one to another like notes in music. The threads of a story come from time to time together ...

— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson

... Griggs; "say it was only dried in the sun, and then rubbed soft. There, let's see what is in it. Hold it up by the tail, and the nuggets'll all fall out." ...

— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn

... any great love of country nor perhaps the pleasantest recollections of it; and to that extent at least appeared to be comparatively satisfied, even under ill treatment. Ill fed as they were, they used frequently to fall out at their work from sheer exhaustion, which the Germans said was only laziness and malingering and for which they would be returned to a point near the laager, where we were, for their punishment. By the Commandant's orders this ...

— The Escape of a Princess Pat • George Pearson

... to deliberate advisedly for their best defence. And in the end, with general consent, the Merchant Royal was appointed Admiral of the fleet, and the Toby Vice-Admiral, by whose orders the rest promised to be directed, and each ship vowed not to break from another whatsoever extremity should fall out, but to stand to it to the death, for the honour of their country and the frustrating of the hope of the ambitious and ...

— Voyager's Tales • Richard Hakluyt

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