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A list of phrases related to the word "failure"...
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A bad quarter of an hour
All washed up ( failed )
Also ran
Back the wrong horse
Back to the drawing board
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Bad
loser
Belly
flop
Born
loser
Brown out ( partial loss of electricity )
Cold
Turkey
( John Lennon song )
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Cold
turkey
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Couldn't organize a pissup in a brewery
Crushing defeat
Damp squib
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Dead duck
Dead in the water
Dead loss
Death of a Salesman ( play by Arthur Miller )
Design flaw
Down and out
Dying on your arse
Economic downturn
Failure to launch
Glaring mistake
Go down in flames
Graceful
loser
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches ( George Bernard Shaw quotation )
Hero to zero
Hot mess
I'm A
Loser
( The Beatles song )
Jerk off
Kiss of death
Knock back
Lame duck
Let the side down
Miserable specimen
Nice guys finish last
On your knees
Out of the running
Piss poor
Quit while you're ahead
Second best
Second class
Sore
loser
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
Sunset industry
Talk
turkey
Texas
turkey
That's blown it
The Blue Mosque ( tourist attraction in
Turkey
)
The Sick Man of Europe ( Nickname of
Turkey
)
The biggest
loser
The bottom fell out of the market
The last
turkey
in the shop
The wheels have come off
The winner takes it all, the
loser
standing small ( ABBA lyric )
Turkey
shoot
Wash out
Went down like a lead balloon
What we have here is a failure to communicate ( line from Cool Hand Luke )
White elephant
You couldn't catch a monkey with a shotgun and a sack