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Also, fall through the cracks or between two stools. Be neglected or overlooked; also, not fit either of two alternatives. For example, Please make sure that either our department or yours deals with this account, lest it fall between the cracks Trying to be both teacher and parent, she fell between two stools...
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fall between the cracks Also, fall through the cracks or between two stools . Be neglected or overlooked; also, not fit either of two alternatives.
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Idioms beginning with stool: stool pigeon. In addition to the idiom beginning with stool, also see fall between the cracks (two stools).
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Also, fall through the cracks or between two stools. Be neglected or overlooked; also, not fit either of two alternatives. For example, "Please make sure...
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To fall between two stools doesn't just mean to slip between two remits of they, or it is said to have fallen between the cracks or through the cracks.
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fall between two stools, to fail, through hesitation or indecision, to select either of two alternatives. In addition to the idiom beginning with stool, also see fall between the cracks (two stools).
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In addition to the idioms beginning with two, also see fall between the crack (two stools); for two cents; game that two can play; goody-two-shoes; in two shakes; it takes two; kill two birds with one stone;
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between between two stools one falls to the ground inability to choose between, "would allow many elements of diversity to fall between the cracks.
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(Fine shades of meaning); Some writers and editors urge us to preserve the following distinction between these two words: Once a week, as a rule, usually on Sunday, a warship's crew was ordered to fall in at quarters -- that is, each group of men into which the crew was divided would line up in formation in a given area...
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Infinitive; to fall to fall (third-person singular simple present falls, present participle falling, simple past fell or (in archaic sense only) felled, past participle fallen or (in archaic sense only) felled) fall between the cracks...
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