Decline Phrases

Phrases

• Atishoo atishoo all fall down
• Brain fade
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Count me out
• Do a fade
• Double dip recession
• Double-dip recession (A financial recession with two low points)
• Fall about laughing
• Fall about your ears
• Fall amongst friends
• Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
• Fall apart at the seams
• Fall asleep
• Fall back on
• Fall between the cracks
• Fall by the wayside
• Fall down on the job
• Fall flat
• Fall flat on your face
• Fall foul of the law
• Fall from grace
• Fall guy
• Fall in
• Fall in love
• Fall into bad habits
• Fall into line
• Fall like a stone
• Fall off the radar
• Fall off the wagon
• Fall on deaf ears
• Fall on hard times
• Fall on stony ground
• Fall on your feet
• Fall on your sword
• Fall out
• Fall out of favour
• Fall out of love with
• Fall prey to
• Fall through
• Fall through the cracks
• Flag fall (An Australian expression for a fixed starting fee, typically at the start of a taxi ride)
• Flash crash (the sudden drop in the Dow Jones Index in 2010)
• Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan song)
• Hit the slide
• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything (Malcolm X quotation)
• In decline
• Into every life a little rain must fall
• Jump the couch
• Jump the shark
• Let the chips fall where they may
• Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly song)
• Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
• One fall, two submissions or a knockout
• Pride comes before a fall
• Reversal of fortune
• Riding for a fall
• Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Spring forward, Fall back
• Sunset industry
• Swear off
• Take a fall for
• Thanks, but no thanks
• The Big Dipper (Nickname of Wilt Chamberlain)
• The bigger they are the harder they fall
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The rise and fall of the Roman Empire
• Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (from a poem by Yeats)
• United we stand divided we fall
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• Wilt the Stilt (Nickname of Wilt Chamberlain)