Fall Flat

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dullness	Render dull; Adjective: damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a wet blanket on; fall flat upon the ear.
Failure	Come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out ; fall to the ground, fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down; (descent); go to wrack and ruin; (destruction).
Wit	Bomb, fall flat; go over like a lead balloon.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Fall Flat

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I mean, I know we all secretly hope the other one will trip and fall flat on her facebut oh wait a minute, I've already done that! (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford)

His little dream may fall flat, you think. (Holiday; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions: Fall Flat

Modern Translation: Fall Flat

Language		Translations for "fall flat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dështoj plotësisht. (various references)

Bulgarian		пльосвам се (flop, sprawl). (various references)

Czech		minout se úèinkem. (various references)

French		ne rien donner. (various references)

German		verpuffen (blow out, go pop, to deflagrate). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"שתטח (flatten, prostrate). (various references)

Hungarian		nincs sikere (to fall flat), megbukik (fail, flunk, to be plucked, to become bankrupt, to fail, to fall flat, to flunk, to go flop, to go phut, to slip up, to turn out crabs), kudarcba fullad (fall through, flat out, to fail, to fall flat, to flat out, to go awry), dugába dől (to come unstuck, to fall flat). (various references)

Pig Latin		allfay atflay

Romanian		nu avea succes (cut no ice, flop, fold), nu avea efect (cut no ice). (various references)

Russian		не иметь успеха. (various references)

Swedish		falla raklång, falla platt till marken, misslyckas (abort, bomb, crack, fail, fails, failure, fall through, lose, miscarry, Miss). (various references)

Turkish		ilgi görmemek, başarısız olmak (collapse, come unstuck, fail, fall by the wayside, fall through, flunk, make sorry show). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Fall Flat

Anagrams: Fall Flat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-f-f-l-l-l-t"
	-2 letters: fallal.
	-3 letters: fatal.
	-4 letters: alfa, fall, flat, lall, tala, tall.
	-5 letters: aal, aff, aft, ala, all, alt, fat, lat.
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Domain	Definition
Literature	Fall Flat (To). To lie prostrate or procumbent; to fail to interest, as "the last act fell flat." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	frigetur. (various references)
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Fall Flat

Definition: Fall Flat

Fall Flat

Verb

Specialty Definition: Fall Flat

Literature

Synonyms: Fall Flat

Synonyms within Context: Fall Flat

Dullness

Failure

Wit

Crosswords: Fall Flat

Modern Usage: Fall Flat

Screenplays

Expressions: Fall Flat

Modern Translation: Fall Flat

Albanian

Bulgarian

Czech

French

German

Hebrew

Hungarian

Pig Latin

Romanian

Russian

Swedish

Turkish

Ancestral Language Translations: Fall Flat

Anagrams: Fall Flat

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INDEX

Expressions using "fall flat": fall flat on one's back ♦ fall flat upon the ear ♦ To fall flat. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.