beef
fall flat on one's face
gronk
go wrong
fight a losing battle
bomb
kamikaze
blow up in one's face
blow up
take on water
mis-
fimble
screw the pooch
blow
take the count
backfire
go down the toilet
go out
be riding for a fall
fall down
pansy
turn turtle
bite the big one
go down in flames
fall on one's face
bollocks up
come a cropper
strike out looking
founder
repine
bollocks
shit the bed
take a dive
go under
lay an egg
omit
scantle
break down
not win for losing
misfall
underwhelm
scant
flame out
drop the ball
come a gutser
stymie
no-win
clutch
die on the vine
waver
misplease
bungle
fail
thwart
require improvement
tatter
whiff
dis-
brickle
go phut
let the grass grow under one's feet
dead duck
nonstarter
stuff-up
go nowhere
brick
lay eggs
fritz
butcher
dwalm
miss stays
unsuccessful
fuster
missuit
hit the skids
miss
wither on the vine
snafu
fail at life
goat rope
fall into a trap
disconsider
go to smash
fumblingness
dys-
give out
bottom fall out
flopdom
go back on
tickle the dragon's tail
roll of the dice
fiasco
miss the mark
halt
hopeless
misperform
fallible
die a death
lose

English words for 'To fail or mess up.'

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