fall flat on face

fall flat on your/its face

to fail or make a mistake in an embarrassing way The new scheme fell flat on its face in spite of all the financial support that was given. It's always amusing to see a newscaster fall flat on his face.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Shiv	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi
Olexiy	-	Ukrainian
Iudas	-	Biblical Latin
Solveig	SOOL-vie (Norwegian), SOOL-vay (Swedish)	Norwegian, Swedish
Dejana	-	Serbian, Croatian, Slovene
Flaviano	flah-VYAH-no	Italian