game over
no-win
make-or-break
failingness
fail
premortem
in vain
washout
no-win situation
a miss is as good as a mile
take it on the chin
fight a losing battle
lay eggs
all-or-nothing
backfiring
fiasco
another nail in someone's coffin
error
nonfailure
backfire
final nail in the coffin
die on the vine
beginning of the end
go wrong
break
borkage
dead duck
only
even odds
cutoff
bad ending
live by the sword, die by the sword
even chance
nonsuccess
attempted
eventually
come a cropper
go nowhere
implosion
nonconcluding
demise
lay an egg
flop era
sad sack
death spiral
fall flat on one's face
unpropitiousness
nonfinishing
discontinuance
inauspiciousness
go down in flames
run a risk
smashup
you can't win them all
near miss
conk
expiry
no joy
mis-
death grip
fruit
game, set, match
Jesus nut
death by a thousand cuts
postfailure
unsuccessful
take on water
do-or-die
law of diminishing returns
good ending
twilight
work out
in abatement
flopdom
doom
heart attack
every man is the architect of his own fortune
expiring
unsuccessiveness
wind-up
autopsy
fall
closing
not win for losing
drop the ball
transience
event
undoing
sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you
epic fail
ineffectiveness
upshot
inefficacy
take the count
beef
conclusion
postlapsarian