Phrase thesaurus
Fail Phrases
102 phrases and expressions related to "fail".
Phrases
- All washed up (failed)
- An abortive attempt
- Ban the bomb
- Belly flop
- Better luck next time
- Botched job
- Buckle under
- Buckle under the strain
- Burn your fingers
- Come apart at the seams
- Come to grief
- Come up short
- Day late and a dollar short
- Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
- Don't lose any sleep over it
- Draw a blank
- Failing to plan is planning to fail
- Failure to launch
- Fall by the wayside
- Fall down on the job
- Fall flat
- Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
- Flub the dub
- Flunk out
- Get no change out of someone
- Get off to a bad start
- Get your fingers burnt
- Give up the ghost
- Go belly up
- Go bust
- Go down in flames
- Go down the drain
- Go down the tubes
- Go downhill
- Go to the wall
- Go wrong
- Got nothing to lose
- Heads I win, tails you lose
- Hit rock bottom
- Hit the skids
- Hit the slide
- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work (Thomas Edison quotation)
- If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
- It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
- Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
- Landed belly up
- Lay an egg
- Let the side down
- Letter bomb
- Looks like a bomb has hit it
- Lose Yourself (Eminem song)
- Lose control
- Lose count
- Lose face
- Lose ground on
- Lose hands down
- Lose out on
- Lose sight of
- Lose the plot
- Lose the thread
- Lose touch with
- Lose track of time
- Lose your balance
- Lose your bearings
- Lose your bottle
- Lose your cherry
- Lose your cool
- Lose your hair
- Lose your head
- Lose your heart
- Lose your inhibitions
- Lose your looks
- Lose your lunch
- Lose your marbles
- Lose your nerve
- Lose your rag
- Lose your shirt
- Lose your temper
- Lose your tongue
- Lose your touch
- Losing streak
- Make a balls of something
- Make a hash of it
- Miss the cut
- Nice try
- On a hiding to nothing
- Reversal of fortune
- Some you win: some you lose
- Strike out swinging (A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort)
- Stuff up
- Take a beating
- That's blown it
- Use it or lose it
- Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)
- What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
- Win lose or draw
- Win some, lose some
- Win the wooden spoon
- Workers of the world arise you have nothing to lose but your chains
- You win some: you lose some
- Your goose is cooked
- Zero out