All fall flat synonyms

verb fall flat

• foil — to cover or back with foil.
• abort — If an unborn baby is aborted, the pregnancy is ended deliberately and the baby is not born alive.
• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• miscarry — to have a miscarriage of a fetus.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• bungle — If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy.
• delude — If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
• flounder — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
• flop — to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down): The puppy flopped down on the couch.
• blunder — A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
• fold — to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
• fizzle — to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly.
• miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
• backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
• deteriorate — If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
• hit the skids — get into difficulties
• lose out — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
• miss the boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
• wash out — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
• peter out — to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing: The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
• fizzle out — to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly.
• poop out — to cause to become out of breath or fatigued; exhaust: Climbing that mountain pooped the whole group.
• miss fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
• bite the dust — to fail completely or cease to exist
• crash-land — If a pilot crash-lands an aircraft, or if it crash-lands, it lands more quickly and less safely than usual, for example when there is something wrong with the aircraft, and it cannot land normally.
• give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
• go in — go indoors
• leave in the lurch — a situation at the close of various games in which the loser scores nothing or is far behind the opponent.
• let down — British. a lease.
• put out — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
• come to nothing — plan, idea: fail
• stand up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.
• go down — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• fall through — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
• go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way
• go downhill — travel down a slope
• go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
• go wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
• hit bottom — the lowest or deepest part of anything, as distinguished from the top: the bottom of a hill; the bottom of a page. Synonyms: base, foot, pedestal.