Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Fall Away

(To). To lose flesh; to degenerate; to quit a party, as “his adherents fell away gradually [one by one], or rapidly.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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