Timeline for meaning of "the choice fell on (somebody)"
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| Aug 20, 2021 at 13:38 | comment | added | Lambie | The is precisely the problem with ngram. In English, a choice falls to this or that person or group. | |
| Aug 20, 2021 at 13:11 | answer | added | Mary | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 17:14 | vote | accept | Fra | ||
| Mar 20, 2019 at 16:21 | answer | added | Andrew | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 7:31 | comment | added | Fra | Yet, on ngram "the choice fell to me" is not even found. books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 7:26 | comment | added | A C | As @Andrew said, fell to would unambiguously mean that the choice was yours to make. Based on "flatmates" I assume you're looking for BrE, but for what it's worth I do sometimes hear people say that a choice fell on them with the same intended meaning here in my part of the US -- perhaps the burden of deciding rests on their shoulders? | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 6:51 | answer | added | Kshitij Singh | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 6:26 | comment | added | Fra | I added a context | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 6:26 | history | edited | Fra | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 6:19 | comment | added | Andrew | Could you provide the context in which you read this? It sounds as if someone is confused about the idiomatic expression, as I think it's normally "the choice fell to me". A different idiom uses "fall on" | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 6:12 | history | asked | Fra | CC BY-SA 4.0 |