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Definition of Fall flat
1. Verb. Fail utterly; collapse. "The business is going to fall flat "; "The project foundered"
Generic synonyms: Fail, Go Wrong, Miscarry
Derivative terms: Flop
Definition of Fall flat
1. Verb. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall Flat
Literary usage of Fall flat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South. 1860-1865 edited by Frank Moore (1882)
"and fall flat Io avoid them. An artillerist, a German, when he saw the tools
falling around him, exclaimed, " My Got ! we shall have the blacksmith's shop ..."
2. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"... about from house to house begging, or telling fortunes; hanee, to fall flat,
as a decayed house; to slip or slide down, as an avalanche ..."
3. Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition by Luke Potter Poland, John Scott (1872)
"When the door fell, it did not fall flat down. Question. Under the bed ? Answer.
Yes, sir. But they cut my bag all to pieces, and I lost a vast amount of ..."
4. The New English by T[homas] L[aurence] Kington Oliphant (1886)
"fall flat, ii. 80. fall flat to the ground, i. 350, 417. Fall foul, ii. 33, 58, 67.
Fall, give a, i. 226. Fall, have a, i. 176. Fall in, i . 290. ..."
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