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What does fall back on mean?

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  1. (transitive) To turn to as a substitute.
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But on bad days where we were all racing the clock, we could fall back on the storyboards and the shot lists and get it done.
As the different wordings were thrown back and forth, all present knew they had a long working relationship to fall back on.
The king's authority had been fatally undermined as the narrow power base of his administration had nothing to fall back on.
Apart from a few spoiled Trustafarians, young people with large debts do not have any capital to fall back on.
All too often in this book, the author is forced to fall back on her own suppositions and general guesswork.
A reader interested in this aspect would at least have the gazetteer to fall back on as a reference.

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