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falling-out

[ faw-ling-out ]

noun

, plural fall·ings-out, fall·ing-outs.
  1. a quarrel or estrangement between persons formerly in close association with one another.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of falling-out1

1560–70; nominalization of verb phrase fall out; -ing 1

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Example Sentences

Where these laser-like missiles are falling out of the sky onto a city and you have to stop each of them from hitting the targets?

We have to use common sense inclusiveness, because we are quickly getting to a place where our brain is falling out.

White, upper-middle-class, Ivy-League educated white men, however Great they are, are falling out of power.

For reasons Lehman may someday wish to enumerate, he and Hitchcock had a falling out.

There were pictures of me crying, pictures of my hair falling out, pictures of me injecting myself with needles.

Some of them are found to have but one tusk, the other being torn out in fighting with each other, or falling out through age.

Having lost several tie pins by theft or by their falling out I made a little device to securely hold the pin in the tie.

The pin was bent at one end so as to keep it from falling out and the other end fitted with two nuts.

Her mother wound an arm about her to keep her from falling out.

Once in a while we have a falling out, but not often, 'cause I won't quarrel.

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