take on water
fight a losing battle
beef
waver
fall flat on one's face
be riding for a fall
go down in flames
make one's bed and lie in it
come a gutser
go wrong
require improvement
fall on one's face
blow
stymie
boned
misfall
gronk
death spiral
shit the bed
skate on thin ice
bottom fall out
imperil
come a cropper
thwart
scant
bite the big one
not win for losing
screw the pooch
death grip
mis-
blow up
kamikaze
break down
blow up in one's face
push one's luck
go out
do-or-die
go to smash
fall down
go down the toilet
strike out looking
give someone a hard time
fall into a trap
backfire
roll of the dice
hooped
go nowhere
up a gum tree
enmesh
old college try
inexplicability
doom
all-or-nothing
swamp
take a dive
hinder
keep one's head above water
up the pole
out of the woods
scantle
hair-trigger
no-win situation
tryingness
bomb
circle the drain
another nail in someone's coffin
sink
turn turtle
look for trouble
die on the vine
sow dragon's teeth
problematicity
drop the ball
go hard with someone
tatter
mean
let the grass grow under one's feet
halt
smashup
hit the skids
failingness
peril
boil the ocean
catch a cold
pressure point
fuck
push shit uphill
reach
make matters worse
run up against
attempted
pansy
discomfit
fail at life
drop behind
act up
lay an egg
goat rope
fash

English words for 'To be in an increasingly difficult or risky situation; to falter or begin to fail.'

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