Phrase thesaurus
Failure Phrases
62 phrases and expressions related to "failure".
Phrases
- A bad quarter of an hour
- All washed up (failed)
- Also ran
- Back the wrong horse
- Back to the drawing board
- Bad loser
- Belly flop
- Born loser
- Brown out (partial loss of electricity)
- Cold Turkey (John Lennon song)
- Cold turkey
- Couldn't organize a pissup in a brewery
- Crushing defeat
- Damp squib
- 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