fall by the wayside

基本解释

When deadlines are pressing, letting your organizational habits fall by the wayside and focusing on the work itself is all too easy.
当截止日迫近，我们就很容易让那套习惯半途而废，然后专注工作。
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.
达施乐是奥巴马任命人选中第三个半途而废的人。奥巴马所精心塑造的沉着冷静、才干出众的形象正在逐渐瓦解。
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 .
值得牢记的是如果许多年长者继续逗留在正规的经济体中，而现在他们在经济体之外所做的事情以及没有金钱的回报将会半途而废。

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.