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the curtain falls / lower the curtain / to come to an end (of a meeting)
HSK 5
in the evening / when night falls / towards evening / at night fall / at dusk
HSK 6
one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades / advancing wave upon wave
heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval
(in literature and opera) a place to which a monarch banishes a wife or concubine who falls from favor / (fig.) the doghouse; a state of disfavor
when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time
Lawpita Falls on the Balu Chaung river, location of Myanmar's biggest hydroelectric plant
darkness fell (falls, had fallen etc)
combined Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day (occurring when the Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋節|中秋节 falls on October 1st, as in 1982, 2001 and 2020) / binodal / two-section
Niagara Falls (Tw)
Niagara Falls
lit. the meat falls apart as it stews, but it all stays in the pot (idiom) / fig. some of us may lose or gain, but in any case the benefits don't go to outsiders
a meat pie falls from the sky (idiom) / to have something fall into your lap
(lit.) to wither in the light of day / (fig.) the bubble bursts as the reality becomes apparent (esp. of a much-anticipated first meeting with sb) / (of stocks) just as the favorable news is officially published, the stock price falls
lit. when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom) / fig. when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed
Huangguoshu falls, Anshun 安順|安顺, Guizhou
Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya on the Zambesi River, between Zambia and Zimbabwe
lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common / the rain falls on the just and unjust alike
Lawpita Falls on the Balu Chaung river, location of Myanmar's biggest hydroelectric plant
a centipede dies but never falls down / old institutions die hard


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