VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Fall through the cracks

Meaning:

to be missed; to escape the necessary notice or attention

Examples:

  • And when that happens, things slow down, fall through the cracks and inefficiencies flourish.
  • Our second mandate is to empower the right choices so kids don't fall through the cracks and choose lives of gangs and crime and drugs and alcohol and weapons.
  • Without frames that allow us to see how social problems impact all the members of a targeted group, many will fall through the cracks of our movements, left to suffer in virtual isolation.
  • If any of these women, who were mostly from poor backgrounds, fall through the cracks in the already broken system, the bottom of that chasm is a prison, period.