Complete Definition of "fall by the wayside"

English

Verb
to fall by the wayside

  1. idiom To fail to complete something, particularly for lack of interest; to drop out.

Quotations
RQ:Authorized Version Mark 4:3,4 (Parable of the sower)
:Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: / And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.

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