Fall Flat

  

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Fall Flat

Definition: Fall Flat

Fall Flat

Verb

1. Fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Fall Flat

DomainDefinition

Literature

Fall Flat (To). To lie prostrate or procumbent; to fail to interest, as "the last act fell flat." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms: Fall Flat

Synonyms: fall through (v), flop (v), founder (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Fall Flat

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Fall Flat

Specialty definitions using "fall flat": cast net. (references)

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Modern Usage: Fall Flat

DomainUsage

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.

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Expressions: Fall Flat

Expressions using "fall flat": fall flat on one's back fall flat upon the ear To fall flat. Additional references.

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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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Fall Flat

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

frigetur. (various references)

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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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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