Meaning of fall back on | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To turn to as a substitute; to rely on as a backup.
   transitive
2. to be blamed on.
   transitive

Examples

“Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last⟳ year—the laughter has died. In its place⟳ is the sad wheeze of the last⟳ surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.”

“So I fell back on the simple methods of the plainsman and Indian and jogged along on their trail.”

“If we do this, the consequences will fall⟳ back on you.”

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