fall flat
Idiomif a joke, a story, or an event falls flat, it completely fails to amuse people or to have the effect that was intended
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if a joke, a story, or an event falls flat, it completely fails to amuse people or to have the effect that was intended
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And he ended up falling flat. He loved that.
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