Flop Phrases

Phrases

• Ban the bomb
• Belly flop
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• Easy peasy, lemon squeezy
• Failing to plan is planning to fail
• Failure to launch
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Flunk out
• Letter bomb
• Looks like a bomb has hit it
• Strike out swinging (A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort)
• Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
• Suck on a lemon
• The answer is a lemon
• Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)