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/fɔl ɪntˈu pleɪs/ Listen

Fall into place

verb

Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions. Synonyms: click, come home, dawn, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in. "She was penetrated with sorrow"

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"Fall into place" Quotes from Famous Books

... all his followers, and prove their readiness to serve him, he had started on a sudden freak for the three days' excursion on the lake one day before the appointed time, expecting everybody to fall into place by magic, without the smallest regard to each one's property, feelings, or comfort. The home must be forsaken without a last adieu, the dinner untasted, and no provision made for the coming night, in order that his impetuous majesty should not suffer one moment's disappointment. ...

— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

... was on his right with the standard, and Prat of Sudbury was next to me. The viking line was two deep before us, and Olaf's shieldmen and mine were between us and the rear rank, and my spearmen leant on their weapons behind us again. But it took us less time to fall into place thus than it has taken to say ...

— King Olaf's Kinsman - A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in - the Days of Ironside and Cnut • Charles Whistler

Words linked to "Fall into place" : understand