fall by the wayside

基本解釋

When deadlines are pressing, letting your organizational habits fall by the wayside and focusing on the work itself is all too easy.
當(dāng)截止日迫近，我們就很容易讓那套習(xí)慣半途而廢，然后專注工作。
Mr Daschle is now the third of his planned appointees to fall by the wayside; Mr Obama’s carefully cultivated image of competence and coolness is starting to fray.
達(dá)施樂(lè)是奧巴馬任命人選中第三個(gè)半途而廢的人。奧巴馬所精心塑造的沉著冷靜、才干出眾的形象正在逐漸瓦解。
It is worth bearing in mind that if many more older people were to stay on in the formal economy, some of the things they now do outside it and without monetary reward would fall by the wayside .
值得牢記的是如果許多年長(zhǎng)者繼續(xù)逗留在正規(guī)的經(jīng)濟(jì)體中，而現(xiàn)在他們?cè)诮?jīng)濟(jì)體之外所做的事情以及沒(méi)有金錢(qián)的回報(bào)將會(huì)半途而廢。

Unfortunately, when public pensions defend their investing decisions, truth may fall by the wayside.
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This hones some regions to levels of superior ability, while others fall by the wayside.
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Without big drug firms to push them, generics fall by the wayside--at least until we find them.
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If someone falls by the wayside, they fail to finish an activity, and if something falls by the wayside, people stop doing it, making it, or using it.