Today's phrase is “to fall through” now, of course, there's the obvious meaning of falling through. If you're walking over an old bridge, you have to be very careful that you don't fall through it. But to fall through also has another meaning. And that's what we're going to be looking at today. To fall through means when an event doesn't take place. Usually, because it's been cancelled or something's happened which means that the event can't happen either. So, we're going to go through some examples. Just so that you get the whole idea of falling through. It's usually accompanied by some kind of feeling of sadness. Okay, so If you just say, something is cancelled… there might not be any emotion to that, it just didn't go ahead. But when something falls through, there's some feeling of dissatisfaction. For example, Our holiday plans fell through when we couldn't book the flights we wanted. The project fell through, because we couldn't secure enough funding. Unfortunately, our plans for moving to a new house fell through due to some unforeseen legal problems. My plans for studying abroad fell through when I didn't get the scholarship. The software launch fell through because of critical bugs found in the last part of testing. Our weekend camping trip fell through because of the sudden change in weather conditions. You can use this in different tenses as well. For example: Their plans are falling through right now, even as we are speaking. Sometimes plans fall through despite our best efforts. The trip has just fallen through so sorry, I won't be going anymore.