Usually means: Fail to continue or succeed.
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  1. fall by the wayside: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. fall by the wayside: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fall by the wayside: Vocabulary.com
  4. fall by the wayside: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. fall by the wayside: Wiktionary
  6. fall by the wayside: Dictionary.com
  7. fall by the wayside: Rhymezone
  8. fall by the wayside: FreeDictionary.org
  9. fall by the wayside: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. fall by the wayside: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. fall by the wayside: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fall by the wayside: Encyclopedia

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  1. fall by the wayside: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (fall by the wayside)

verb:  (idiomatic) To fail to be completed, particularly for lack of interest; to be left out, to suffer from neglect.

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