The story quickly fell apart, however, and he was forced to tell them the truth.
The music and the stories all fell together, it seemed.
There was a chance the story had fallen through the cracks, I tried to tell myself.
Despite this, he said the "story fell a little flat."
Unless we change all the other characters, too, the story will fall flat.
"A story like this doesn't fall in your lap every day."
The top four stories had either fallen into the street or collapsed down inside the rest of the building.
Meanwhile the story falls flat, interesting only to those who are in the know.
He saw her on stage, the story goes, and fell deeply in love.
"You get laid regular and good stories fall into your lap."