fall by the wayside

[fall by the wayside] also [drop by the wayside] {v. phr.}

To give up or fail before the finish.

* /The boys tried to make a 50-mile hike, but most of them fell by the wayside./

* /George, Harry, and John entered college to become teachers, but Harry and John fell by the wayside, and only George graduated./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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