"fall through the cracks" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-fall through the cracks.ogg [Australia] Forms: falls through the cracks [present, singular, third-person], falling through the cracks [participle, present], fell through the cracks [past], fallen through the cracks [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|fall<,,fell,fallen> through the cracks}} fall through the cracks (third-person singular simple present falls through the cracks, present participle falling through the cracks, simple past fell through the cracks, past participle fallen through the cracks)
  1. (idiomatic) To be missed; to escape the necessary notice or attention. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-fall_through_the_cracks-en-verb-2-qN9xr- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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