Given the occasional flare-up of international controversies, it's handy for Brits abroad to be able to fall back on something that everyone seems to love.
"College would be better," he said, "because you'll have a chance to fall back on something besides just basketball, because basketball's going to end at some point".
A man who didn't have an umbrella knocked on the window, said, "How much do you charge?" He thought I was a car service, and I said to myself, maybe that's what my father had in mind; I could fall back on something, just in case.
In the case of a loss, depending on how large the margin and how his rivals fare, Mr. Romney may have to fall back on something of a survival strategy, scooping up a few states he can capture with relatively small expenditure and hoping that Mr. McCain does not sweep everywhere else and lock up the nomination.
But, in the absence of hard data we have to fall back on something to serve as our guide for action.
Ronald Reagan, instead of calling the Soviet Union the "evil empire," would have had to fall back on something like "an unacceptable framework from which we would like to see more positive results".
Not the end of the world, but when you're positioning this selling point as something that can compete against Apple's W2 chip, it's a pretty big bummer when you have to fall back on something more inline with the standard pairing.
If nothing else, the rowers from a small campus in Orange County can fall back on something familiar.
It is important to have something you love to fall back on, something that will give you courage and inspire you to believe again.
