Similar words: fall for, flat, flat out, inflate, deflate, flatter, flat rate, flattery. Meaning: v. fail utterly; collapse.
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1) The product will fall flat if it's footballed around too much.
2) Yet there are certain composers who fall flat on their face unless the adrenalin really start to flow.
3) At last, after several near misses, I fall flat on my face.
4) I knew it would fall flat; but it wasn't the bad script which made the film unsuccessful.
5) I fall flat on my bonce and break a chair.
6) This business is going to fall flat.
7) He fall flat on his face walking downstairs.
8) The party will fall flat without her.
9) Our proposals were likely to fall flat.
10) Irony still seems to fall flat in a culture where one-dimensional discourse is promoted from the earliest days of school on up into the professional world.
11) Sharp rises increase the chances that some banks fall flat over their interest rate risk.
12) It is also a nation waiting for her to fall flat on her face.
13) Writers strive for a universal experience distilled from personal memories and tend to fall flat on their faces.
14) Because if you don't a fresh ambition or optimistic plan will fall flat on its face.
15) My own ... Private jokes, no longer comprehended, pull their punchlines, fall flat in the gaps between endearments.
16) If they won't offer the money, our project will fall flat.
17) Tax cuts are on investors'wish lists,(http://sentencedict.com/fall flat.html) but benefits handed directly to consumers could fall flat.
18) Stepping forward to receive my award what do I do but fall flat on my face.
19) But if a speaker doesn't project pizzazz and show devotion to her topic, the speech may still fall flat on its well-prepared face.
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