All go up in smoke synonyms

verb go up in smoke

• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
• break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
• backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
• founder — a person who founds or casts metal, glass, etc.
• 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.
• abort — If an unborn baby is aborted, the pregnancy is ended deliberately and the baby is not born alive.
• fizzle — to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly.
• slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
• miscarry — to have a miscarriage of a fetus.
• 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.
• misfire — (of a rifle or gun or of a bullet or shell) to fail to fire or explode.
• go down — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• come to nothing — plan, idea: fail
• fall flat — horizontally level: a flat roof.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.