| Falls on one's face |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Oct 2025 |
| Face-plants |
USA Today |
07 Sep 2025 |
| Faceplants after attempting a kickflip |
USA Today |
06 May 2025 |
| Wipes out |
New York Times |
13 Feb 2025 |
| Takes an embarrassing fall |
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| Face-plants, say |
Universal |
19 Nov 2024 |
| Face-plants, perhaps |
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| Totally wipes out |
New York Times |
08 Aug 2023 |
| Wipes out |
New York Times |
08 Apr 2023 |
| Face-plants |
Universal |
06 Jun 2022 |
| Flubs a kickflip, maybe |
USA Today |
08 Feb 2021 |
| Wipes out big-time |
USA Today |
24 Aug 2020 |
| Takes the L, in slang |
The Washington Post Sunday |
17 May 2020 |
| Absorbs the financial hit |
The Washington Post |
01 Dec 2019 |
| Absorbs the financial hit |
LA Times Daily |
01 Dec 2019 |
| Wipes out, in slang |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Oct 2018 |
| Wipes out, in slang |
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| Fails miserably |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Sep 2017 |
| Wipes out on the half-pipe, say |
New York Times |
16 Aug 2017 |
| Wipes out on the half-pipe, say |
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| Fails ignominiously, in slang |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Nov 2016 |
| Falls flat on one's face |
New York Times |
23 Jan 2016 |
| Falls flat on one's face |
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| Suffers a bad defeat, in slang |
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| Absorbs the loss |
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| Absorbs the loss |
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| Absorbs a loss |
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| Bites the dust? |
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| ___ up (devours greedily). |
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| ___ up (consumes something eagerly). |
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| Suffers humiliation, slangily |
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| Gets humiliated big time |
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