fall away

Meaning

1. to become gradually fewer or smaller; to disappear

   His supporters fell away as his popularity declined.

In the movies · 3

• His friends fell away from him.Barry Lyndon1975
• Let the scales fall away.The Mist2007
• And with a mile and a half behind them, teams are falling away but no one is gaining on California and Navy.The Boys in the Boat2023
• I know to separate the wheat from the chaff and let the small stuff fall away.The Straight Story1999

Learn it in full scenes

• The Mist2007
  • The Mist Reaches the Store
  • David Argues With His Neighbor
  • David Argues the Mist Is Real

From the same entry

• fall about
• fall apart
• fall back
• fall back on
• fall behind
• fall behind with
• fall down
• fall for
• fall for
• fall in
• fall in with
• fall into