Definitions for fall flat

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fall through, fall flat, founder, flop(verb)

    fail utterly; collapse

    "The project foundered"


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fall flat(noun)

(especially of jokes etc) to fail completely or to have no effect

Her joke fell flat.

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