fall flat (on one’s face) / fall flat (on its face)

fall flat (on one’s face) / fall flat (on its face)
Fall flat (on one’s face) / fall flat (on its face)
 быть полной неудачей
 My jokes fall flat most of the time.

English-Russian small dictionary of idioms. 2014.

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