Fall Scam Sth Joke Trick Meaning Real Genuine

Meaning: If you fall for something like a trick or a scam, you believe it's real or genuine even though it's not.

• fall for sth Don't fall for email scams which promise to make you a lot of money.
  
  
• fall for sth Lots of people fell for our April Fool's joke when we claimed that the UN was going to ban all languages except for English.
  
  

Nouns often used as objects with fall for (1): trick, scam, confidence trick, con, joke