Brewer's: Fall Under

(To). To incur, as, “to be under the reproach of carelessness;” to be submitted to, as, “to fall under consideration,” a Latinism, “In deliberationem cadere.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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