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fallen on one's facephrasepast participle of fall on one's face to be unsuccessfulRemembering how she fell on her face giving the speech the first time spurred her to practice it till she had it down. bombed, collapsed, cratered, failed, flamed out, flopped, flunked, folded, foundered, missed, struck out(also stricken out), tanked, washed out floundered, struggleddeclined, skidded, slipped, slumped, sunk, wanedcrashed, crumbled, miscarried, misfiredgone underimploded, self-destructed come a cropper, come to grief, come up empty, died on the vine, fallen flat, fallen short, laid an egg clicked, come off, delivered, gone, gone over, panned out, succeeded, worked out cooked, flourished, prospered, thrived(also thriven)prevailed, triumphed, won |