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take it on the chin
undergo failure or defeat
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miss
fail to reach or get to
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overreach
fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
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ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil
make a mess of, destroy or ruin
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strike out
be unsuccessful in an endeavor
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fall
suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
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shipwreck
suffer failure, as in some enterprise
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fall flat, fall through, flop, founder
fail utterly; collapse
