fall in line

1. 1.

   agree on (a position)

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Questions about fall in line

What does fall in line mean?

fall in line means "agree on (a position)".

Is fall in line a common word?

fall in line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.