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What does fall through mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be unsuccessful, abort, come to nothing/naught; to be cancelled; not to proceed.
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For a while I even entertained the notion that all the people who disappear each year simply fall through a rift in space to another dimension.
However, there will undoubtedly be friction in this process, and some soldiers will fall through the cracks.
This is a case that the courts have let fall through the cracks through a variety of sort of technical procedural barriers.
Those who lose a job or face a financial setback fall through the frayed safety net of welfare and other social service cutbacks.
I'm not voting because I fall through the cracks and nobody will miss me, but I will not go down fighting.
It fears that if immediate steps are not taken, the project may fall through.

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