fall flat on one's face

fall flat on one's face fall over forwards 向前跌倒。 ■ figurative fail in an embarrassingly obvious way 〈喻〉脸面丧尽： the president could fall flat on his face if the economy doesn't start improving soon. 如果经济不能很快开始好转的话, 总统就可能丧尽脸面。

• tonometry
• disaffiliate from
• indestructibilities
• physician assistant
• Saccharomonospora
• sweat like a pig
• taste-blindness
• plaid
• make a feature of
• tip your hand
• sunbather
• tay-sachss
• Tupi
• uniseptate
• busy with
• be / keep / stay etc in touch (with sth)
• anathematisation
• room acoustics
• pike out
• Beaton, Sir Cecil
• equivalence point
• charmed circle
• endogamous
• coup de main
• swept-up
• adjudg(e)ment
• Filipine
• papovaviruses
• apical angle
• self-definitions
• cyrano de bergeracs
• disc player
• report of survey
• chrysoidine
• titanium trichloride
• elem.
• Mister Nice Guys
• card-carrying
• double-headed nail
• split/divide sth down the middle
• intergradation
• formal language
• lead apes to
• correctives
• positivists
• sten-
• proctorial
• ruler
• on a (或 the ) fast track
• chinagraph
• high wire
• folklife
• fiddle about/around
• touchholes
• go to pigs and whistle
• annotates
• mustached
• water-supplies
• chlamydes
• amidines
• a joker in the pack
• distributive lattice
• dockdues
• sock it to someone
• simply connected
• overinspiration
• uranates
• cybertag
• autostability
• Jones-Mote reaction
• in health
• dekapoise
• monoculturally
• boredoms
• basilicas
• instigation
• deprives
• no-tillage
• single-spaced
• eco-theologian
• Jeffersonian
• ugly ducklings
• lags
• capitalises
• copper naphthenate
• wargasms
• murdering
• throw someone to the lions
• endhand
• Friedmanite
• sufficiently
• word processor program
• European spruce sawfly
• energist
• oratio obliqua
• test clip
• Pierian
• louse sth↔up
• interoperably
• serialists