English

Verb

fall in with

1. To join (a group of people).

   He has fallen in with a bad lot.

2. To meet with (something).
   • 1846, Frederick Marryat, The Privateersman, or One Hundred Years Ago, chapter 4:

     We had not sailed twelve hours before we fell in with a gale, which lasted several days, and we kept under close-reef-topsails and storm-staysails.

3. To accept (a set of generally agreed rules, or a suggestion).

   It seemed like a good idea, so we fell in with it.

Quotations

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