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WotD: Fall back on
Do you have a person or resource to fall back on when everything else has failed?
I’m sure you do.
It’s like having life insurance for, well, all of those little life happenings that can get the better of us sometimes.
We fall back on someone or something when everything else has failed.
We can depend on the people we fall back on to support us when needed.
We may feel as if we are as solid as a rock when it comes to ourselves.
We believe we can handle anything and everything that life throws our way.
Until that is, life throws something at us that we can’t handle on our own.
It could be a bad divorce, sudden sickness or job loss.
We won’t know what it is until it happens, but whatever it is, it’ll be the straw that broke the camel’s back, and we’ll need someone to fall back on.
That will be the person we depend on to support us through rough times when we can’t pull our own weight.
Of course, the situation doesn’t have to be as severe.
In my line of work, I reference many dictionaries and grammar aids daily.
Most of the time, I can answer a student’s questions with the knowledge that has accumulated in, as Agatha Christie’s Poirot puts it, ‘Those little grey cells.’
On those odd occasions when I can’t put my finger on something immediately, I have my online sources to fall back on.
The Internet is a beautiful thing.
It enables us to access copious amounts of information at the click of a mouse.
Just like with people, my Internet resources are the ones I depend on to support me through difficult questions.
It puts my mind at ease to know that as long as I know where to look, I can fall back on reliable resources.
Whether it’s a person or other resource in difficult times, we depend on who/what we fall back on to support us in difficult times.
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