scrape
skip a beat
slip through
let the grass grow under one's feet
trivially
unflourishing
not going anywhere
unprogressing
strike out looking
successlessness
underrestrain
miss the mark
copout
forlorn
unattainment
ease
scrape through
unadvancement
cut it close
hard-pressed
arm's length
miss
nonsuccessful
luckless
misfire
dead on the vine
languish
unsuccess
scrape along
unthrive
push shit uphill
nonfulfilling
unsucceeding
baffle
halt
skate on
underchallenging
nothing like
unmightiness
successlessly
not long for this world
go nowhere fast
two steps ahead
failure
easeless
bare
unsuccessfully
stuck in the mud
omit
racy