final nail in the coffin
dead duck
matter of life and death
dry hole
peril
game over
premortem
lay eggs
pull out of the fire
do for
transience
deathblow
near thing
doomed
loss
wall
flopdom
fail
run a risk
compensation
no-win
washout
lay an egg
dead man walking
lapse
postlapsarian
death spiral
death grip
lose ground
go under
come a cropper
sword of Damocles
backfiring
lossmaker
toast
another nail in someone's coffin
disappointment
fiasco
bleed red ink
sad sack
heart attack
stick a fork in something
ruin
write off
be riding for a fall
borkage
only
sad trombone
break
loss-making
die on the vine
slumpbuster
dooming
blow up in one's face
blow up
dead in the water
wreck
kamikaze
forfeit
foredoom
day of reckoning
hazard
end of the world
forfeiture
sacrifice
fail at life
exposure
doom
doomsday
backfire
acronical
risk
jeopardy
endangerment
remuneration
abandonable
mishap
trainwreck in slow motion
derelictness
fatally
defunct
implosion
hemorrhage
loser
evil
mischance
smashup
catastrophize
sinking ship
nondeath
on one's last legs
bad luck
go down in flames
sickness unto death
second chance