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Expressões, Ditados e Provérbios em Inglês-Português
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1. FALL BEHIND. In: Cambridge Dictionary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2025. Disponível em: https://abre.ai/lRGt. Acesso em: 12 jan. 2025.
1. ✰ The director fell flat on his face when he tried to convince the meeting participants to adopt his idea, but no one saw its potential. (O diretor deu com os burros na água quando tentou convencer os participantes da reunião a adotar sua ideia, mas ninguém viu seu potencial.)
2. ✰ My plan for hosting a surprise party fell flat when I accidentally sent the invitation to the guest of honor. (Meu plano de organizar uma festa surpresa foi por água abaixo quando enviei acidentalmente o convite para o convidado de honra.)
3. ✰ The con man tried to cheat in the game, but ended up falling flat on his face. (O vigarista tentou trapacear no jogo, mas acabou quebrando a cara.)
4. ✰ Marilyn was so nervous during her presentation that she forgot her lines and fell flat on her face in front of the audience. (A Marilyn estava tão nervosa durante sua apresentação que esqueceu suas falas, metendo os pés pelas mãos na frente da plateia.)
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1. FALL FLAT on one's face. In: Wiktionary. São Francisco, Califórnia: Wikimedia Foundation. Disponível em: https://abre.ai/lCuC. Acesso em: 14 set. 2021.
Veja também: fall head over heels in love with (someone or something).
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1. CAZ AND GORDON: Two Local Explorers. This Adventure Life, 27 jun. 2017. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/xsel5. Acesso em: 14 set. 2021.
2. FALL FOR (someone or something) hook, line, and sinker. In: Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. Huntingdon Valley: Farlex, Inc., 2022. Disponível em: http://bit.ly/33tbV43. Acesso em: 14 set. 2021.
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1. FALL FOR (someone). In: Love and Relationship Idioms and Quizzes: Love and Relationship Idioms. [S. l.]: Idiom Connection, 1997-2023. Disponível em: http://bit.ly/3jfm2OF. Acesso em: 3 dez. 2021.
2. KARL MAYER. Desperate Housewives Wiki. Disponivel em: https://abre.ai/lCxT. Acesso em: 4 dez. 2024.
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1. FALL FOR something. In: Cambridge Dictionary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2023. Disponível em: http://bit.ly/3fvLnle Acesso em: 17 jan. 2022.
1. cair da graça, no sentido religioso. ✰ "Humanity fell from grace when the mind divorced the heart." (A humanidade caiu da graça quando a mente se divorciou do coração.)
2. cair em desgraça. ✰ "Phil Spector was a musical genius who fell from grace as a murderer." (Hewitt, 2018). (Phil Spector era um gênio musical que caiu em desgraça como assassino.)
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1. FALL FROM GRACE. In: Religion Idioms and Quizzes: Religion Idioms. [S. l.]: Idiom Connection, 1997-2023. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/j02fo. Acesso em: 26 fev. 2022.
2. HEWITT, D. G. From Hero to Zero: 20 of the Biggest Falls from Grace in History. History Collection, 21 ago. 2018. Disponível em: https://abre.ai/lCvd. Acesso em: 26 fev. 2022.
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1. FALL HEAD OVER HEELS. In: McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. [S.l.]: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2002. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/kjqz7. Acesso em: 16 set. 2021.
Veja também:
be head over heels in love with (someone) e fall for (someone or something) hook, line, and sinker.
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1. FALL HEAD OVER heels in love with (someone). In: Head Idioms and Quizzes: Head Idioms. [S. l.]: Idiom Connection, 1997-2023. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/35mdkj. Acesso em: 17 set. 2021.
2. Malnik-Ezagui, Miriam. Last summer, I fell head over heels in love with a Wrapunzel scarf... [S.l.], [s.d.]. Facebook: Miriam Malnik-Ezagui. Disponível em: https://abre.ai/lJ3m. Acesso em: 23 dez. 2024.
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1. FALL FOR (someone or something). In: Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. Huntingdon Valley: Farlex, Inc., 2022. Disponível em: http://bit.ly/33tbV43. Acesso em: 17 jan. 2022.
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1. FALL ILL. In: Reverso Context. Neuilly-sur-seine: Reverso Technologies, Inc. Disponível em: https://abre.ai/lCyb. Acesso em: 16 jan. 2023.
2. NORTHWELL Heath. A lifesaving COVID-19 treatment, inspired by the deep sea. Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Disponível em: https://abre.ai/lCyf. Acesso em: 16 jan. 2023.
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