Brewer's: Fall to

(To). To begin [eating, fighting, etc.].

“They sat down ... and without waiting ... fell to like commoners after grace.” —Kane: Arctic Explorations, vol. i. chap. xxx. p. 419.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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