fail utterly
1fall flat — verb fail utterly; collapse The project foundered • Syn: ↑fall through, ↑founder, ↑flop • Derivationally related forms: ↑flop (for: ↑flop) …
2fall through — verb fail utterly; collapse The project foundered • Syn: ↑fall flat, ↑founder, ↑flop • Derivationally related forms: ↑flop (for: ↑flop) …
3ἀπήμπλακον — ἀπαμπλακεῖν fail utterly aor ind act 3rd pl (attic epic ionic) ἀπαμπλακεῖν fail utterly aor ind act 1st sg (attic epic ionic) …
4flunk — v. & n. US colloq. v. 1 tr. a fail (an examination etc.). b fail (an examination candidate). 2 intr. (often foll. by out) fail utterly; give up. n. an instance of flunking. Phrases and idioms: flunk out be dismissed from school etc. after failing …
5Richard Cobden — Died Suffolk Street, London Cause of death Asthma and bronchitis Resting place West Lavington, West Su …
6zilch — I. n 1a. nothing. The word became common in US speech in the later 1960s, spread ing to Britain in the 1980s. It is either an invented alteration of zero or from sub sense b. 1b. a nonentity. Zilsch or Zilch is a Yid dish/German family name… …
7flunk — ► VERB informal, chiefly N. Amer. 1) fail to reach the required standard in (an examination). 2) (flunk out) fail utterly and leave or be dismissed from school or college. ORIGIN perhaps related to FUNK(Cf. ↑funk) or to US flink «be a coward» …
8fall on one's face — phrasal to fail utterly < the movie fell on its face at the box office > …
9Parametric statistics — are statistics where the population is assumed to fit any parametrized distributions (most typically the normal distribution). The opposite is non parametric statistics.Parametric inferential statistical methods are mathematical procedures for… …
10Usury — (] In the 13th century Cardinal Hostiensis enumerated thirteen situations in which charging interest was not immoral. [cite journal | last = Roover | first = Raymond | title = The Scholastics, Usury, and Foreign Exchang | journal = Business… …
