failure to prepare is preparing to fail
go nowhere
fight a losing battle
die on the vine
drop the ball
nonpreparation
disqualification
scantle
plough
omit
premortem
failingness
flag
hopeless
go wrong
fumblingness
robust
unready
fall flat on one's face
thwart
flat out
lose
bulletproof
be riding for a fall
mis-
now what
bottle out
flunk out
repine
not win for losing
handicap
lay an egg
fall down
disablement
wither on the vine
jinx
go down the toilet
go out
disability
come a cropper
impairment
bomb out
another nail in someone's coffin
scant
weak
gronk
fall by the wayside
take a shit
miss the mark
conk
as you make your bed, so you must lie in it
unfitness
strike out looking
lose ground
take on water
chagrin
attrition
go down in flames
one strike and you're out
malfunction
founder
the jug goes to the well until it breaks
waver
failure
fallible
do-or-die
let the grass grow under one's feet
unsuccessful person
fatigue
push one's luck
loser
autopsy
nonstarter
backfire
bomb
dwalm
flunk
take a dive
fall down on
fail
take the count
failable
faultable
go phut
nonconform
unreadiness
come to nought
languish
require improvement
dys-
misfire
mismeet
doomed
bite the big one
undertest
default
flop era
draw a blank
copout