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
Raquel	rah-KEL (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese, English
Ada	AY-də (English), AH-dah (Polish, Finnish)	English, German, Polish, Hungarian, Italian, Finnish
Aurelia	[ɔ:'ri:ljə]
Drago	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Kephas	-	Biblical Greek
Carolin	KAH-ro-leen	German