take a fall out of

verb

get the better of

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Meanings

verbtake 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)

present singular third person takes a fall out of · participle present taking a fall out of · past took a fall out of · participle past taken a fall out of

  1. obsoleteslangtransitiveget the better of

    Besides, how they do love to “take a fall out of” the bourgeois–épater is their word for it.

    1919 June 8, “Intolerance at Zurich”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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    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.

    1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post
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Chicago

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