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To fall on; to experience; to suffer.
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With the rise of the Internet, some media fell upon hard times.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
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- all very well
- at full tilt
- back to square one
- bells and whistles
- bend somebody's ear
- bring owls to athens
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- fear
- feather in one's cap
- first port of call
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- fresh start
- gloss over
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- in order
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- labor of love
- let her rip
- lip service
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