fall behind

[fall behind] {v.}

To go slower than others and be far behind them.

* /When the campers took a hike in the woods, two boys fell behind and got lost./

* /Frank's lessons were too hard for him, and he soon fell behind the rest of the class./

* /Mary was not promoted because she dreamed too much and fell behind in her lessons./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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