Definition
To embrace someone affectionately or thankfully.
In Context
- "[W]hen Theseus saw him, his heart leapt into his mouth, and he longed to fall on his neck and welcome him."
- "If he expected either of them to fall on his neck and weep tears of gratitude at his pompous announcement, the colonel was disappointed."
- "I ought to fall on your neck with joy. . . . You are my father's friend, my mother's, mine."
- ""[T]he moment your delinquent showed the slightest sign of decency . . . you fell on his neck as if he had rescued you from drowning.""
- "[A]fter falling on my neck and hugging me and calling me “cousin” like a character from a Jane Austen novel, . . . she sat me down."