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| fade into insignificance (Viacheslav Volkov); take second place (DariaChernova); recede into the background (Politics recedes into the background, to be replaced in the foreground by the theme that is to characterize Amado's fiction from1958 on: the exotic, eroticized piquancy of Bahia's Afro-Brazilian culture, most often as epitomized in women, music, and food. VLZ_58); pale into insignificance; take backseat (Glider) | |||
| fall by the wayside (e.g. With so many domestic problems, foreign policy issues tended to fall by the wayside Anglophile) | |||