fall through/between the cracks

idiom

variants or less commonly slip through/between the cracks

: to fail to be noticed, assisted, or included with others

Parents are concerned that children who have trouble in school will fall through the cracks in the school system.

The program is meant to help workers who may have slipped through the cracks because of their age.

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Something that could easily fall through the cracks is a new version of H.G. Wells' classic tale of sci-fi terror, War of the Worlds, premiering on Amazon Prime, starring Ice Cube, and directed by music video veteran Rich Lee, making his feature film debut. —Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2025

That way, if things fall through or if the clinic or entity fail, the community will be deprived of that service, but in a way that other services might be set up in advance to help catch those critical patients that may fall through the cracks. —Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025

But as these apocalyptic alarms sound, concerns over how AI is further encoding misogyny into the fabric of society fall through the cracks. —Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025

This seems to happen with some frequency after crashes, where lenders are dealing with lots of defaulted loans and particular cases fall through the cracks, or where loans are packaged and resold as a security but somebody down the line doesn't get notice of the default. —Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025