Caer in english

caerse = fall out ; fall off ; tumble down ; topple over ; come + a cropper ; go down ; fall over ; take + a tumble ; fall down ; suffer + a fall ; take + a fall. 

Example: In time, however, the rubber on which these gurta percha (or caoutchouc) bindings depended perished, and the leaves fell out.Example: The article has the title 'Bringing the mountain to Mohammed without falling off the cliff of unmanageable technology'.Example: The article has the title 'The walls come tumbling down'.Example: Make use of book supports on shelves to prevent books toppling over or falling to the floor.Example: With the rain, the limestone rocks and stiles were very slippy and at least one of our party came a cropper.Example: It doesn't take a wild imagination to grasp what happens to a rider who crashes with protective gear on and one who goes down in street clothes.Example: The sack race and three-legged race have been banned from a school sports day because the children might fall over and hurt themselves.Example: He took a tumble to the bottom and hit the railing at the end.Example: By the time I got to the tower I was shivering and drenched in snow after falling down several times on the slippery ice.Example: He was concussed after suffering a bad fall at his house.Example: Rescue crews rescued a teenager after she took a fall while hiking this weekend.

caer = drop ; fall ; tumble ; slump ; take + a tumble ; fall away. 

Example: The search profile will only be modified periodically as the quality of the set of notifications output from the search drops to unacceptable levels.Example: There may be pale drip marks in the neighbourhood of the tranchefiles, where drops of water fell from the deckle or from the maker's hand on to the new-made sheet.Example: The form this 'hypothesis' has come to take is easily dismissed as a straw figure and serious consideration of the relation between language diversity and thinking has largely tumbled with it.Example: The copy was grubby from use, a paperback with a photographically realistic full-color painting on its cover of an early teenage boy slumped in what looked to me like a corner of a very dirty back alley, a can of Coke in his hand.Example: Tourism takes a tumble in Australia due to the global credit crunch.Example: A couple years ago the brick line under the window started to fall away from the wall.

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» al caer la noche = at nightfall .

Example: At nightfall, drop anchor at any place that catch your fancy and the lullaby of the gentle waves put you to sleep.

» bailar hasta caer muerta = dance + Posesivo + heart out .

Example: After dancing his heart out for an hour or two, and drinking more beers than he should, he flaked out earlier than most.

» bailar hasta caer muerto = dance + Posesivo + socks off .

Example: Then, Nathan spontaneously offered to take her out for her birthday and dance her socks off.

» caer aguanieve = sleet .

Example: It doesn't really matter which day of the week it is, or if it's lashing it down with rain, sleet or snow, there's always going to be a crowd.

» caer al vacío = fall into + the void ; fall into + (empty) space ; free fall .

Example: In the commotion, Jehan Baig lost his footing and fell into the void.

Example: People thought that the world was flat and one would fall into space if you sailed over the horizon.

Example: If I were in an elevator that was free falling, would it help at all if I perfectly timed a jump before it hit the ground floor?.

» caer a plomo = flop down .

Example: I'm 10 weeks pregnant with my second baby and have an awful habit of flopping down hard into chairs and on couches.

» caer bajo el hechizo de = fall under + the spell of .

Example: Experts confirmed this week that the U.S. populace appears to have fallen under the spell of yet another pink-faced half-wit.

» caer bajo el poder de = fall under + the power of .

Example: By the fortune of war, they fell under the power of the British army.

» caer bajo el yugo de = fall under + the power of .

Example: By the fortune of war, they fell under the power of the British army.

» caer bajo + Posesivo + influencia = come under + Posesivo + influence .

Example: Like most of Mrs. Eddy's disciples, he had led a quiet, uneventful life until he came under her influence.

» caer bajo sospecha = fall under + suspicion .

Example: Bennett fell under suspicion and was arrested and charged.

» caer bien = sit + well (with) ; go down + well with ; cotton (on) to ; strike + the right note (with) .

Example: Although football pools were immediately popular with the public, they did not sit well with the establishment.

Example: The recent High Court verdict banning hookah parlours has not gone down well with hoteliers in the city.

Example: He was a most affable bloke, and she cottoned on to him right away.

Example: Our growth doubled that of the market trend, demonstrating that our products are striking the right note with customers.

» caer chuzos de punta = rain + cats and dogs ; rain + stair rods ; rain + buckets ; rain + come down + by the bucketful ; rain + come down + in buckets ; rain + come down + in/like stair rods ; rain + pitchforks ; rain + pour down ; rain + torrents ; rain by + the bucketful ; bucket it down (with rain) .

Example: Two years in a row now it has rained cats and dogs leading up to this event.

Example: If it's not blowing a gale and raining stair rods then it's three foot of snow and minus three... which isn't bad for a British summer!.

Example: It's raining buckets again today, so as soon as we get more sun breaks, I'll head back out.

Example: The time of year has come upon us where the darkness sets in a little earlier every evening and the rain comes down by the bucketful.

Example: I woke up to the wind howling and the rain coming down in buckets, and from all indications, it's going to continue along those lines most of the day.

Example: He hadn't a clue what the time was and the rain was coming down like stair rods.

Example: It was raining pitchforks with the tines down, and it was no good walking unless you had fins.

Example: While the rain poured down, the course never became unplayable because of unseasonably dry weather over the winter in San Diego.

Example: On Saturday it was cold and raining torrents but people showed up.

Example: It was raining by the bucketful and when I came home my pants were dripping water for ages.

Example: It was another five hour journey, and despite being summer, it bucketed it down with rain for at least two hours of that.

» caer como anillo al dedo = fit like + a glove .

Example: Your boots must fit like a glove and be as comfy as your running shoes.

» caer como chinches = drop like + flies .

Example: Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.

» caer como moscas = drop like + flies .

Example: Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.

» caer como una bomba = hit + Nombre + like a bombshell ; fall like + a bombshell .

Example: A policeman describes how the discovery of three kidnapped women at a house in Cleveland hit him like a bombshell.

Example: The news fell like a bombshell on close to 900 employees who still do not know how many people will lose their jobs.

» caer como una jarra de agua fría = come as + a (complete) shock .

Example: Obama's abrupt change of direction came as a shock to experts and allies alike.

» caer como una patada = be like a kick in the teeth ; go down like + a cup of cold sick .

Example: Jake was an excellent motorbike mechanic but when he was made redundant it was like a kick in the teeth.

Example: He knew that what he was planning would have gone down like a cup of cold sick anyway, for all sorts of reasons, not least the time of year.

» caer como una patada en el estómago = be like a kick in the teeth ; feel like + a kick in the teeth .

Example: Jake was an excellent motorbike mechanic but when he was made redundant it was like a kick in the teeth.

Example: So to be faced with this refusal on your last day, really, to me felt like a kick in the teeth.

» caer como una patada en el hígado = be like a kick in the teeth ; feel like + a kick in the teeth ; go down like + a cup of cold sick .

Example: Jake was an excellent motorbike mechanic but when he was made redundant it was like a kick in the teeth.

Example: So to be faced with this refusal on your last day, really, to me felt like a kick in the teeth.

Example: He knew that what he was planning would have gone down like a cup of cold sick anyway, for all sorts of reasons, not least the time of year.

» caer como una piedra = zonk out .

Example: Whatever the reason, this pup is zonked out and won't even budge when mom tries to wake him.

» caer como un cubo de agua fría = come as + a (complete) shock .

Example: Obama's abrupt change of direction came as a shock to experts and allies alike.

» caer como un jarro de agua fría = come as + a (complete) shock .

Example: Obama's abrupt change of direction came as a shock to experts and allies alike.

» caer como un rayo = hit + Nombre + like a bombshell ; fall like + a bombshell ; come as + a blow .

Example: A policeman describes how the discovery of three kidnapped women at a house in Cleveland hit him like a bombshell.

Example: The news fell like a bombshell on close to 900 employees who still do not know how many people will lose their jobs.

Example: The news came as a blow to a country thought to be leading a green revolution.

» caer dando vueltas = go + head over heels .

Example: Vonn had to be airlifted off a mountain after she went head over heels and apparently injured her knee.

» caer de cabeza = go over + Posesivo + head ; take + a header .

Example: The donkey turned a corner suddenly and Blucher went over his head.

Example: It was not uncommon for a penny-farthing rider to die from taking a header.

» caer de espaldas = fall on + Posesivo + back .

Example: When I saw what he was up to, I drew back for a punch and hit him so hard on the nose that he fell on his back and lay there for some time, so that his wife stood over him and cried out 'Mercy! You've done my husband in!'.

» caer dentro = fall in .

Example: Vincent, another of the sailors, also had a narrow shave, he did not fall in but his bag did.

» caer dentro de = fall within/into ; fall into .

Example: The user then receives, on a regular basis, notifications of new documents or information which fall within the topic specified in his profile.

Example: Suddenly, the smell struck his nostrils -- the pungency of processed corn syrup, as if the car had gone off the road and fallen into the neck of a gigantic bottle of syrup.

» caer dentro de la competencia de = be the province of ; fall within + the province of .

Example: The bibliographical control of such items is the province of in-house indexing.

Example: They do not fall within the province of the common auxiliaries, nor are they all directly enumerated in class 911 as compound subjects.

» caer de nuevo = fall again .

Example: Unfortunately, it seems like she's falling again into what caused all her sadness.

» caer de pie = land on + Posesivo + (own two) feet ; fall on + Posesivo + feet .

Example: He thought he had landed on his feet when he got a job at a large and prestigious firm, but he soon discovered there was more to the job than he imagined.

Example: However it seems the he has fallen on his feet with a promising career ahead of him that all started from a karaoke night.

» caer de rodillas = fall to + Posesivo + knees .

Example: She fell to her knees, the water now lapping at her midriff.

» caer deshecho = flake out [Coloquial] .

Example: After dancing his heart out for an hour or two, and drinking more beers than he should, he flaked out earlier than most.

» caer desplomado = slump in + a heap .

Example: One day she indulged in her habit of swigging too much gin before going to feed the porker and after opening its pen she slumped in a heap.

» caer dormido como un tronco = zonk out .

Example: Whatever the reason, this pup is zonked out and won't even budge when mom tries to wake him.

» caer en = run + foul of ; lapse into ; slip into ; slide into .

Example: Although Limburg's attempt to cover such a wide range of issues is commendable, he runs foul of the dangers of simplistic diatribe and superficiality.

Example: Although he occasionally lapses into a sort of clotted prose, his book is a valuable study of McLuhan's cultural and geographical context.

Example: If the economy slips into recession then the government may decide to stimulate the economy with massive spending.

Example: I surmise that Slake will start in the hard-edged reality of modern urban life before sliding ineluctably into the darkling land of Hereafter.

» caer en abundancia = rain .

Example: They usually come to Israel each year to study or work, but this time found themselves instead scurrying for cover as Hamas rained missiles on Israel.

» caer en barbecho = fall on + barren ground ; fall on + fallow ground .

Example: Among the many seminal ideas which flowed from Freud's fertile pen, there was one which appears to have fallen on barren ground -- the concept of an inherent death instinct in man.

Example: Without these skills, most policies and action plans will fall on fallow ground.

» caer en batalla = fall in + battle .

Example: Whole cities laid to waste, heroes falling in battle, death of gods, the works!.

» caer en combate = fall in + action .

Example: The three soldiers have been declared fallen in action, but the return of their bodies is considered a national priority.

» caer en decadencia = go into + a decline ; fall into + decline .

Example: America is going into a decline the like of which the world has never seen before.

Example: After the Romans left, the city of London fell into a decline.

» caer en descrédito = come into + disrepute ; fall into + disrepute .

Example: As a result public libraries came into disrepute and even today authorities speak against them.

Example: By the fifteenth century the practice of uroscopy was falling into disrepute.

» caer en desgracia = fall from + grace ; fall into + disfavour ; tumble into + disgrace ; come into + disrepute ; fall into + disrepute ; be in the doghouse ; fall + foul of ; lose + favour ; fall into + disgrace ; fall out of + favour ; go from + saint to sinner .

Example: She probably hasn't told you, Blanche, because after all you're her boss, and she can't afford to fall from grace.

Example: The printed catalogue has fallen into disfavour, and been replaced by card catalogues, and, more recently, on-line catalogues.

Example: In conversing with her you hadn't got to tread lightly and warily, lest at any moment you might rupture the relationship, and tumble into eternal disgrace.

Example: As a result public libraries came into disrepute and even today authorities speak against them.

Example: By the fifteenth century the practice of uroscopy was falling into disrepute.

Example: This video shows what happens when a guy bought his girlfriend the wrong gift and ended up in the doghouse.

Example: The author attempts to unravel the mystery of how Microsoft came to fall foul of the Department of Justice.

Example: However, and despite its popular currency, this perspective has largely lost favour in academic circles.

Example: Once a popular heavyweight champion, he rapidly achieved success but this was only equaled with the speed which he fell into disgrace.

Example: At first he was a close political advisor to Charles II, although he later fell out of favour and was forced into exile.

Example: It didn't take long for biofuels to go from saint to sinner destroying early hopes that they offered a low carbon means of meeting our energy requirements.

» caer en desuso = fall into + disuse ; fall out of + fashion ; go out of + use ; lapse ; fall into + disfavour ; die out ; drop from + sight ; go out of + favour ; pass away ; fall into + desuetude ; fall into + desuetude ; pass into + desuetude ; sink into + desuetude ; sink into + oblivion ; fall out of + favour .

Example: However, from the sixties, competition for the railway worker's leisure time from public libraries, service clubs and the humble television meant that many branch libraries fell into disuse.

Example: Rotundas were widely used for all but the most formal texts in the fifteenth century, but fell out of fashion during the sixteenth century, surviving longest in Spain.

Example: The English, French, and Dutch bastardas went out of use by the mid sixteenth century.

Example: The Act was finally allowed to lapse in 1695 and the Stationers' Company was unable to protect its members' rights against those who chose to infringe them.

Example: The printed catalogue has fallen into disfavour, and been replaced by card catalogues, and, more recently, on-line catalogues.

Example: These changes accelerated through much of the nineteenth century, with the older material such as the chivalric romance dying out about the 1960s.

Example: The older material, such as the chivalric romances, dropped from sight.

Example: The author follows the history through to the point, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, when mirror-image monograms went out of favour and were replaced by straightforward monograms.

Example: These tools are useable for analytical studies of how technologies emerge, mature and pass away.

Example: Probably only one in a hundred girls who give birth clandestinely even knows that an edict of King Henry II, now fallen into desuetude, once made their action punishable by death.

Example: Probably only one in a hundred girls who give birth clandestinely even knows that an edict of King Henry II, now fallen into desuetude, once made their action punishable by death.

Example: To make a very long story unacceptably short, espionage passed into desuetude after the Reagan years.

Example: It is clear now that after a time, with her marriage sinking into desuetude, Vivien entered into a sexual relationship with Russell.

Example: Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.

Example: At first he was a close political advisor to Charles II, although he later fell out of favour and was forced into exile.

» caer en el error de = fall into + the error of ; blunder into .

Example: Behavioral scientists have fallen into the error of assuming that employees resent job structuring and autocratic leadership.

Example: Australia risks blundering into a human rights mess that will exacerbate the conflict.

» caer en el olvido = fall into + obscurity ; fall into + oblivion ; fade into + obscurity ; fade into + oblivion ; blow over .

Example: The acid rain literature illustrated the 1st paradigm, where journals from the unadjusted literature were thrust forward in the adjusted literature, and no unadjusted journal fell into obscurity.

Example: The whole civilization, having lost both past and future, would finally find itself on the verge of collapsing and falling into oblivion.

Example: But he may be put under house arrest, a dire fate for a man who is terrified of fading into obscurity.

Example: The music industry as we know it is slowly fading into oblivion.

Example: During the bulk of that time, your liberal leaders grandly sat, waiting for various things to blow over.

» caer en el vacío = fall (up)on + deaf ears ; meet + deaf ears .

Example: I realize that our pleas are no doubt continuing to fall on deaf ears at Thomson.

Example: The same argument on the part of librarians met deaf ears.

» caer enfermo = become + ill ; fall + ill ; get + sick ; get + ill .

Example: However, many attempts to actively involve the community in reducing its risks of becoming ill have met with failure.

Example: The largest group of metaphors compared firms to living (especially human) beings: companies are born, fall ill, have children, die, etc.

Example: When some of the parrots got sick, he nursed them back to health, and they in turn brought him back to life.

Example: If you recall, Bisi was pregnant for Ijaodola before she got ill and the pregnancy had to be terminated to save her life.

» caer enfermo de = go down with .

Example: These are the things you need to find out in order to stand the best chance of not going down with a cold or the flu.

» caer enfermo de/con = come down with .

Example: Gulf War vets are coming down with these symptoms at twice the rate of vets from previous conflicts.

» caer enfermo de/con fiebre = come down with + a fever .

Example: Unfortunately, he came down with a fever forcing him to decline her invitation on Saturday after he initially accepted.

» caer en forma de cascada = cascade .

Example: This project is designed to provide a network of practising librarians with a programme in educational methods and skills which can then be disseminated, or 'cascaded', to a wider network of professional colleagues.

» caer en gracia = take + a fancy to ; take + a shine to ; take + a liking to ; cotton (on) to ; go from + sinner to saint .

Example: He is a collector who wants to form a collection by making his own paintings of pictures he has taken a fancy to in other people's houses.

Example: She took a shine to Sheldon, and before he knows what has happened, the misanthropic physicist finds himself with a girlfriend.

Example: He quickly took a liking to American clothing stores and acquired a taste for fast-food restaurants.

Example: He was a most affable bloke, and she cottoned on to him right away.

Example: It's amazing how quickly a political figure can go from sinner to saint when they resign, quit, or die.

» caer en la cuenta = dawn on ; wise up ; the penny dropped ; suss (out) ; twig ; come to + the realisation .

Example: It dawned on her that what she was doing might be a mistake, and she began to think of how best to extricate herself.

Example: The article 'Cataloguing electronic resources: wise up or dumb down?' argues that WWW search engines do a good job in impossibly difficult circumstances but that they do not provide enough information about a resource.

Example: It was only when I saw Ron's car outside Penny's house that the penny finally dropped and I realised they were having an affair.

Example: He was incredulous when he sussed that the noises came from bona-fide gibbons.

Example: Sometimes the police tolerated them for a bit but sometimes they came down on them like a ton of bricks as soon as they twigged what they were up to.

Example: So today I just came to the realization that I've been jinxed somewhere along the way in my life.

» caer en la cuenta de = realise [realize, -USA] ; wise up to .

Example: It should be realized, in addition, that the question involves not only serials but other works that are generally intended to be issued indefinitely in successive editions.

Example: Businesses are finally startiing to wise up to the power of the social network.

» caer en la cuenta (de) = cotton on (to) .

Example: We failed to cotton on to the economic essential that owning stuff isn't productive, making stuff is.

» caer en la cuenta de = realise [realize, -USA] ; wise up to .

Example: It should be realized, in addition, that the question involves not only serials but other works that are generally intended to be issued indefinitely in successive editions.

Example: Businesses are finally startiing to wise up to the power of the social network.

» caer en la misma falta = fall into + the same fault .

Example: On the odd occasion I have given a brother a word of admonition, only to find myself fall into the same fault shortly afterwards.

» caer en la nada = fall into + the void ; fall into + (empty) space .

Example: In the commotion, Jehan Baig lost his footing and fell into the void.

Example: People thought that the world was flat and one would fall into space if you sailed over the horizon.

» caer en la oscuridad = fall into + obscurity ; sink into + oblivion ; sink into + obscurity ; fade into + obscurity ; fade into + oblivion .

Example: The acid rain literature illustrated the 1st paradigm, where journals from the unadjusted literature were thrust forward in the adjusted literature, and no unadjusted journal fell into obscurity.

Example: Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.

Example: Some of them enjoy loyal followings within Russia while others briefly shone before sinking into obscurity.

Example: But he may be put under house arrest, a dire fate for a man who is terrified of fading into obscurity.

Example: The music industry as we know it is slowly fading into oblivion.

» caer en las garras de = fall + prey to ; fall under + the power of ; fall into + the clutches of .

Example: Administrators all too easily fall prey to the siren song of cost reduction, especially if phrases like innovation are employed as harmonic accompaniment.

Example: By the fortune of war, they fell under the power of the British army.

Example: Would you rather fall into the clutches of an evil genius or an evil moron?.

» caer en las manos de = make + Posesivo + way into the hands of .

Example: A number of these rifles made their way across the Atlantic and into the hands of Confederate sharpshooters.

» caer en la tentación = fall into + temptation .

Example: So don't fall into the temptation of thinking that more is always better.

» caer en la trampa = fall into + the trap ; fall for + it ; fall into + the snare .

Example: It is very easy to fall into the trap of enjoying the act of telling stories and reading aloud so much that the children never get a chance to read themselves.

Example: The classic form of April fool hoax is to present an improbable situation in such a convincing way that people fall for it on the spur of the moment but later cannot understand why they did so.

Example: Perhaps guided by caprice or a dream, we all can fall into the snares of destiny without realizing it = Quizás guiados por un capricho o por un sueño, todos podemos caer en las trampas del destino sin darnos cuenta.

» caer en manos de = fall into + the hands of .

Example: I would rather a great book or a great picture fell into the hands of the corporation than into the hands of an individual.

» caer en manos enemigas = fall into + enemy hands .

Example: Crucial information too important to be allowed to appear in periodicals, which might fall into enemy hands, was printed in the form of individual papers in a limited number of copies.

» caer en oídos sordos = fall (up)on + deaf ears ; meet + deaf ears .

Example: I realize that our pleas are no doubt continuing to fall on deaf ears at Thomson.

Example: The same argument on the part of librarians met deaf ears.

» caer en picada = plummet .

Example: The costs of retrieval and distribution of information have plummeted and may be further reduced in future.

» caer en picada al suelo = plummet to + the ground .

Example: Police said a paraglider pilot died Sunday evening after his paraglider suddenly plummeted to the ground.

» caer en picado = plummet ; swoop ; take + a nosedive ; nosedive .

Example: The costs of retrieval and distribution of information have plummeted and may be further reduced in future.

Example: Magpies are very protective of their young and may swoop on intruders if they feel threatened.

Example: His career took a nosedive after he piddled from his hotel balcony onto a passing parade led by the President.

Example: As the economy has nosedived, hospitals have seen their uncollected debt increase -- from low, single digits to more than 5 percent.

» caer en picado al suelo = plummet to + the ground .

Example: Police said a paraglider pilot died Sunday evening after his paraglider suddenly plummeted to the ground.

» caer (en) redondo = flake out [Coloquial] ; lose + Posesivo + consciousness ; pass out ; keel over ; crash out ; go out + cold ; flop over ; zonk out ; drop like + a sack of potatoes ; go down like + a sack of potatoes .

Example: After dancing his heart out for an hour or two, and drinking more beers than he should, he flaked out earlier than most.

Example: The bleed was so severe that she almost lost her consciousness and had to be hospitalised for 10 weeks.

Example: He fell from his stool, passing out.

Example: If I was running at a dead sprint going full tilt, I do not think I could make it much more than maybe one mile before I would keel over.

Example: After that we just crashed out on the beach and soaked up the sun.

Example: She jammed her finger in the door and went out cold for about 1 minute.

Example: I was brushing her hair in the living room when she flopped over and her lips turned blue.

Example: Whatever the reason, this pup is zonked out and won't even budge when mom tries to wake him.

Example: This morning I got out of bed and took two steps and my right leg gave out -- I dropped like a sack of potatoes and sprained my ankle.

Example: Then he hit himself in the temple, and he went down like a sack of potatoes.

» caer en saco roto = go to + waste ; fall on + stony ground ; fall (up)on + deaf ears ; meet + deaf ears .

Example: The article 'Information: the resource that goes to waste' argues that industry has consistently failed to use the information at its disposal in a coherent and integrated system.

Example: It is scarcely possible for departments of library studies to offer courses in humility, or enthusiasm, or persistence, still less to set examinations in them, and simple exhortations to such virtues might today fall on stony ground.

Example: I realize that our pleas are no doubt continuing to fall on deaf ears at Thomson.

Example: The same argument on the part of librarians met deaf ears.

» caer en terreno baldío = fall on + barren ground ; fall on + fallow ground .

Example: Among the many seminal ideas which flowed from Freud's fertile pen, there was one which appears to have fallen on barren ground -- the concept of an inherent death instinct in man.

Example: Without these skills, most policies and action plans will fall on fallow ground.

» caer en terreno pedregoso = fall on + stony ground .

Example: It is scarcely possible for departments of library studies to offer courses in humility, or enthusiasm, or persistence, still less to set examinations in them, and simple exhortations to such virtues might today fall on stony ground.

» caer en una broma = fall for + a joke ; fall for + it .

Example: Some people understood the joke and laughed, others fell for the joke and took it seriously.

Example: The classic form of April fool hoax is to present an improbable situation in such a convincing way that people fall for it on the spur of the moment but later cannot understand why they did so.

» caer en una trampa = tumble into + pitfall .

Example: Life is full of pitfalls, into which the innocent often tumble.

» caer en un hábito = lapse into + habit .

Example: Employees must call upon the services of the librarians and not lapse into 'do-it-yourself' habits.

» caer estrellándose = crash down .

Example: It was the size of a truck and was breaking apart as it crashed down, throwing out little bits of hot shrapnel that zinged past me.

» caer fatal = can't/couldn't stand + the sight of [También se usa la construcción "can't/couldn't stand + Posesivo + sight"] ; rub + Nombre + up the wrong way ; can't/couldn't stand + Nombre .

Example: The article is entitled 'Menstruation or, who says women can't stand the sight of blood?'.

Example: Relations between the two countries would now be difficult as our Prime Minister had rubbed theirs up the wrong way over ridiculous matters.

Example: I just can't stand her mom and hate when she visits.

» caer fuera de = fall outside ; lie beyond .

Example: These issues demonstrably fall outside the likely preoccupations of IT-based information specialists with organisational concerns.

Example: We have excluded consideration of the many applications of the computer in pre- and post-coordinate indexing as lying beyond the limits and objectives of this particular course.

» caer fuera del alcance de = fall outside + the scope of .

Example: An in-depth discussion about most elements of developing library plans fall outside the scope of this article.

» caer fuera de las responsabilidades de = be on the outer fringes of .

Example: Of course, this is on the outer fringes of reference work as such, but librarians should at least be aware that people frequently find counsel and support and encouragement more effective than the supply of specific information to help solve their problems.

» caer fuera del interés de = lie outside + the scope of .

Example: Consideration of PRECIS and the chain procedure lies outside the scope of this particular volume.

» caer fuera del interés de uno = fall outside + Posesivo + interest .

Example: The description of documents in catalogue entries is called descriptive cataloguing and this also falls outside our present interest.

» caer fuera del objetivo de = fall outside + the scope of .

Example: An in-depth discussion about most elements of developing library plans fall outside the scope of this article.

» caer gordo = can't/couldn't stand + the sight of [También se usa la construcción "can't/couldn't stand + Posesivo + sight"] ; rub + Nombre + up the wrong way ; can't/couldn't stand + Nombre .

Example: The article is entitled 'Menstruation or, who says women can't stand the sight of blood?'.

Example: Relations between the two countries would now be difficult as our Prime Minister had rubbed theirs up the wrong way over ridiculous matters.

Example: I just can't stand her mom and hate when she visits.

» caer hecho polvo = flake out [Coloquial] .

Example: After dancing his heart out for an hour or two, and drinking more beers than he should, he flaked out earlier than most.

» caerle bien a = be on + Posesivo + good side ; get on + Posesivo + good side ; get on + Posesivo + good books ; be on + Posesivo + good books .

Example: The only way to live in peace here is to be on her good side and pray she is feeling nice.

Example: I would like to get on her good side and you showing up to work smelling like a brewery isn't going to help.

Example: He's is despondent that Nora is ignoring him and he needs to get on her good books and maybe he will get invited round to her pad.

Example: Her advice carries more weight than anyone else's -- so you'd better be on her good books.

» caerle mal a = get on + Posesivo + bad books ; get on + Posesivo + bad side .

Example: She is a friendly and sweet human being but if you get on her bad books you will witness the angry feminist side of hers.

Example: At times, she may also be deceptive, overbearing, irritable, and even tyrannical, particularly if you get on her bad side.

» caer mal = rub + Nombre + up the wrong way ; can't/couldn't stand + the sight of [También se usa la construcción "can't/couldn't stand + Posesivo + sight"] ; can't/couldn't stand + Nombre .

Example: Relations between the two countries would now be difficult as our Prime Minister had rubbed theirs up the wrong way over ridiculous matters.

Example: The article is entitled 'Menstruation or, who says women can't stand the sight of blood?'.

Example: I just can't stand her mom and hate when she visits.

» caer mejor = best + fit .

Example: Nelson and Tague suggest that a rank distribution best fits the distribution of terms used to index journal papers.

» caer muerto = flop down ; crash out .

Example: I'm 10 weeks pregnant with my second baby and have an awful habit of flopping down hard into chairs and on couches.

Example: After that we just crashed out on the beach and soaked up the sun.

» caer por selección = drop [Proceso por el que se seleccionan fichas de un paquete mediante la inserción de una aguja o agujas por las perforaciones que presentan las fichas y que representan materias] .

Example: If the three concepts in our example were distributed along three edges of the cards concerned, then documents on Poetry would be dropped if the pack were needled at the appropiate hole.

» caer presa de = fall + prey to ; be prey of .

Example: Administrators all too easily fall prey to the siren song of cost reduction, especially if phrases like innovation are employed as harmonic accompaniment.

Example: Librarians need not fear that they will be prey to increases in postal rates if the introduce this scheme.

» caer rendido = flop down ; crash out .

Example: I'm 10 weeks pregnant with my second baby and have an awful habit of flopping down hard into chairs and on couches.

Example: After that we just crashed out on the beach and soaked up the sun.

» caer rendido de sueño = zonk out .

Example: Whatever the reason, this pup is zonked out and won't even budge when mom tries to wake him.

» caer rodando = go + head over heels .

Example: Vonn had to be airlifted off a mountain after she went head over heels and apparently injured her knee.

» caerse = fall out ; fall off ; tumble down ; topple over ; come + a cropper ; go down ; fall over ; take + a tumble ; fall down ; suffer + a fall ; take + a fall .

Example: In time, however, the rubber on which these gurta percha (or caoutchouc) bindings depended perished, and the leaves fell out.

Example: The article has the title 'Bringing the mountain to Mohammed without falling off the cliff of unmanageable technology'.

Example: The article has the title 'The walls come tumbling down'.

Example: Make use of book supports on shelves to prevent books toppling over or falling to the floor.

Example: With the rain, the limestone rocks and stiles were very slippy and at least one of our party came a cropper.

Example: It doesn't take a wild imagination to grasp what happens to a rider who crashes with protective gear on and one who goes down in street clothes.

Example: The sack race and three-legged race have been banned from a school sports day because the children might fall over and hurt themselves.

Example: He took a tumble to the bottom and hit the railing at the end.

Example: By the time I got to the tower I was shivering and drenched in snow after falling down several times on the slippery ice.

Example: He was concussed after suffering a bad fall at his house.

Example: Rescue crews rescued a teenager after she took a fall while hiking this weekend.

» caerse a = topple onto .

Example: Many kinds of book supports are marketed and these ensure that books remain upright on the shelves and do not topple onto the floor.

» caerse al suelo = fall down ; fall to + the ground ; drop + Nombre + to/on(to) the floor [Las posibilidades son drop + Nombre + to the floor o drop + Nombre + on the floor o drop + Nombre + onto the floor] .

Example: By the time I got to the tower I was shivering and drenched in snow after falling down several times on the slippery ice.

Example: When he fell to the ground, out of nowhere, a woman rushed to his side and embraced him.

Example: Stopping at the lectern to say thanks, he then walked to center stage, took off his tie and coat, and dropped them to the floor.

» caerse al suelo accidentalmente = drop + Nombre + to/on(to) the floor [Las posibilidades son drop + Nombre + to the floor o drop + Nombre + on the floor o drop + Nombre + onto the floor] .

Example: Stopping at the lectern to say thanks, he then walked to center stage, took off his tie and coat, and dropped them to the floor.

» caerse a pedazos = fall to + pieces ; fall to + bits .

Example: One must accept that it is impossible to satisfy all people all the time; this author has seen several prison librarians fall to pieces, while the librarian was drowning in details.

Example: If you leave it there for a few months, your bike will rust, perish and fall to bits.

» caerse bien = hit it off (with) .

Example: As the two began to connect well and hit it off, the contact between the two increased to a rate of at least once a week.

» caerse colándose por = fall through .

Example: A newborn baby has fallen through the toilet on a moving train after being prematurely born.

» caerse de = fall off of ; fall out (of) .

Example: So, even if one of the many libraries falls off of the information food chain in some way, the others will be always be there for us.

Example: Rods may hold the cards in the drawer and stops may prevent drawers from falling out the cabinet.

» caerse de bruces = fall + flat on + Posesivo + face ; blow up on + Posesivo + face .

Example: Like the bear who could take it or could leave it alone, we may find that if we lean over too far backwards we might as well fall flat on our face.

Example: She always tries to do what she thinks is right, but sometimes it blows up in her face.

» caerse de la cama = roll out of + bed .

Example: She had very hard floors in her room at the time and I was worried about her rolling out of bed and hitting her head.

» caerse de la(s) mano(s) = slip out of + Posesivo + hand(s) .

Example: Worse case ever, m