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Verb
take 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)
- (transitive, obsolete, slang) get the better of
1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post: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.
1919 June 8, “Intolerance at Zurich”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:Besides, how they do love to “take a fall out of” the bourgeois–épater is their word for it.
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