fight a losing battle
fall flat on one's face
take on water
beef
kamikaze
blow up in one's face
blow up
fall down
attempted
require improvement
go out
go down the toilet
fail
push shit uphill
go down in flames
blow
strike out looking
failingness
break down
do-or-die
miss
no-win
fall on one's face
the wheels fell off
waver
die on the vine
shit the bed
fumblingness
backfire
the jug goes to the well until it breaks
bomb
bite the big one
not win for losing
be riding for a fall
lay an egg
luckless
omit
unfulfillment
butchery
halt
go wrong
old college try
premortem
take a dive
let the grass grow under one's feet
wither on the vine
scantle
push one's luck
dead duck
exercise in futility
come to nought
mis-
for lack of trying
take the count
bring off
scant
hard-set
downstat
plough
come a cropper
drop the ball
go nowhere
no-win situation
throw up one's hands
unattainment
hit the skids
turkey
lay eggs
game over
waterproof
baffle
roll of the dice
dwalm
ineffectivity
unsuccessful
fail at life
thwart
miss the mark
blaze
hell
failingly
founder
sink like a stone
fiasco
come a gutser
repine
default
difficultate
underwhelm
failure to prepare is preparing to fail
disimprovement
clap out
nonsurvival
gronk
screw the pooch
borkage
flame out
call
ineffectiveness