die on the vine

die on the vine (计划等)未能实现;中途夭折：Our factory’s expansion plan died on the vine，for our superiors did not ratify it.我们厂的扩充计划未能实现，因为我们上级没有批准它。

• threnode
• continuous-strip camera
• announcements
• palm off
• intendance
• a smart chance
• square oneself
• weathervlsion
• glory-of-the-snow
• Hants.
• big White Chief
• doorkeeper
• disablist
• force sth ↔ out of
• talc schist
• Eulerian equation
• dict.
• DMTS
• blanket statement / rule / ban etc
• acceptor material
• chronology
• bencherships
• hypolimnial
• musmons
• polarizing microscope
• Elizabethans
• Desargues's theorem
• neotenin
• dolias
• rectangular wave
• resonance
• live under someone's protection
• intimidatory
• ultraviolet stars
• sparrowlike
• logothete
• austenitic stainless steel
• trade off
• Caldaria
• troposphere
• overindulgence
• dramatisers
• overcroppings
• light-footed
• vine
• shell model
• and no one is the wiser
• Nineteener
• in (good, etc.) trim
• gastritis
• allopolyploids
• decimated
• sidereal table
• predicant
• fountainous
• lie down
• off one's trolley
• capitulatory
• hysterorrhexis
• patisserie
• throw sb back on sth
• throw up the game
• not give a rush for
• lunarite
• gushings
• cyclable
• belt and braces
• Hooker, William
• dolomite
• pneumatic mortar
• draw oneself up
• Captain Armstrong
• back for
• tansy
• oka
• make oneself heard
• gasbaggery
• baiza
• lamellating
• lepromatous
• lunilogical
• drisheens
• reideologization
• weary sb with
• repetitive element
• cheerest
• valuers
• prelatize
• superaltern
• precipitancies
• scapolites
• stock guard
• dexamphetamine
• clear the air
• Darfur
• the nineteenth hole
• won't (或wouldn't have a bar of)
• transfigurest
• emitter bias
• Magellanic cloud