take a fall out of
English
editVerb
edittake a fall out of (third-person singular simple present takes a fall out of, present participle taking a fall out of, simple past took a fall out of, past participle taken a fall out of)
- (transitive, obsolete, slang) get the better of
- 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post[1]:
- and they had it back and forth across the table—a good old-fashioned family spat. Jennie mixed in; Jeff took a fall out of her and wished mighty soon that he hadn't.
Further reading
edit- “take a fall out of”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present