fall flat
trip and land on one's face; produce no response
fall flat
Verb
1. fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"
(synonym) fall through, founder, flop
(hypernym) fail, go wrong, miscarry
fall flat
be unsuccessful, fail I think that my attempt at humor fell flat and now she doesn`t like me.
fall flat
Synonyms and related words:
bomb, break down, capsize, careen, collapse, come a cropper, come to naught, come to nothing, crash, fall, fall dead, fall down, fall headlong, fall in, fall over, fall prostrate, fall short, fall stillborn, fall through, fizzle out, flounder, flunk, get a cropper, get bogged down, get hung up, get mired, go to smash, list, lurch, peter out, pitch, poop out, spin, sprawl, spread-eagle, stagger, stumble, take a fall, take a flop, take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, tilt, topple, topple down, topple over, totter, trip, tumble, turn turtle, wash out, wear thin
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
fall flat
phrv. หกล้มจนหงายท้อง; ไม่ประสบผลสำเร็จ (syn. drop through, fall down)