strike out looking
go out
go down the toilet
fall down
let the grass grow under one's feet
bite the big one
mis-
miss
omit
fall flat on one's face
bomb
go nowhere
strike out
scantle
miss the mark
hit the skids
repine
waver
fight a losing battle
fall on one's face
fall back
unthrive
break down
languish
waterproof
draw a blank
scant
push shit uphill
nonfailure
slip through
attempted
truck
fail
die on the vine
underwhelm
unsucceeding
underachieve
go wrong
miscarry
plough
luckless
copout
beat the odds
baffle
beef
ineffectiveness
inefficacy
downstat
underchallenge
unsuccessful
dis-
dys-
halt
founder
kamikaze
blow up in one's face
go down in flames
forlorn
unlikely
blow up
one strike and you're out
manage
come to nought
fimble
disconsider
lay an egg
unsuccessfully
flop
missuit
fall down on
flat out
futile
in vain
misfire
successlessly
nonfulfilment
scrape
to no avail
trivially
failure
not win for losing
spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
unattainment
lose
misplease
underrestrain
go to the wall
do-or-die
wither on the vine
require improvement
plow ahead
go nowhere fast
take on water
unlast
take the count
flake