Definition of Fall into place

1. Verb. Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions. "She was penetrated with sorrow"


Definition of Fall into place

1. Verb. (idiomatic) To assume a clear and complete form when separate elements come together; to be realised. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall Into Place

fall dandelion
fall down
fall equinox
fall flat
fall for
fall foul
fall from grace
fall guy
fall ill
fall in
fall in line
fall in love
fall in with
fall into
fall into place (current term)
fall line
fall of wicket
fall off
fall off a truck
fall off the back of a lorry
fall off the back of a truck
fall off the turnip truck
fall off the wagon
fall on
fall on deaf ears
fall on one's face
fall on one's feet
fall on one's sword
fall open

Literary usage of Fall into place

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tires and Vulcanizing: A Comprehensive and Practical Manual of Rubber Tires by Henry Horace Tufford (1920)
"For replacement; the end with the lip must be set on first and the other end forced over to fall into place, after which the lever is tapped into place. ..."

2. Tires and Vulcanizing: A Comprehensive and Practical Manual of Rubber Tires by Henry Horace Tufford (1920)
"For replacement; the end with the lip must be set on first and the other end forced over to fall into place, ..."

3. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court (1872)
"... patient is able to know when the bones are restored to their places, by the noise made when they fall into place, and by the immediate relief from pain. ..."

4. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"They satisfy expectation, and fall into place. What is good is effective, generative; makes for itself room, food, and allies. A sound apple produces seed; ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... painful prominence, and fall into place in a large and noble circle of ideas. The merely painful always marks as inferior the work in which it is found. ..."

6. Therapeutic Gazette (1908)
"... from the abscess cavity to the external wound, while in the first case it described a gradual curve to allow the transverse colon to fall into place. ..."

7. The Science and art of surgery by John Eric Erichsen (1854)
"... so soon as this is done, the bony fragments will naturally fall into place ; but no amount of extension or counter-extension can get these into position ..."

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