Usually means: Fail to be accepted, understood.
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  1. fall on stony ground: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. fall on stony ground: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. fall on stony ground: Wiktionary
  4. fall on stony ground: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fall on stony ground: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (fall on stony ground)

verb:  Of words, an idea, etc.: to go unheeded.

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