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falling shortphrasepresent participle of fall short to be unsuccessfulThe movie fell short of its viewers' expectations. bombing, collapsing, cratering, failing, flaming out, flopping, flunking, folding, foundering, missing, striking out, tanking, washing out floundering, strugglingdeclining, sinking, skidding, slipping, slumping, waningcrashing, crumbling, miscarrying, misfiringgoing underimploding, self-destructing coming a cropper, coming to grief, coming up empty, dying on the vine, falling flat, falling on one's face, laying an egg clicking, coming off, delivering, going, going over, panning out, succeeding, working out cooking, flourishing, prospering, thrivingprevailing, triumphing, winning to go wrongThe biography falls short by neglecting to explore the subject's faults as well as his virtues. miscarrying, misfiring missingbreaking down, busting, conking (out), crashing, dying, failing, foundering, stallingbombing, fizzling, flaming out, flopping, flunking, folding, washing outfloundering, strugglingdeclining, skidding, slipping, slumping, tanking, waning coming a cropper, coming to grief, falling flat prevailing, succeedingflourishing, prospering, thriving |