flunk out
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Expel or be expelled from a school because one's work does not meet the required standard. For example, He flunked out of Harvard after just one year . [ Slang ; early 1800s]
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Fail at anything, as in The camera ran out of film so we flunked out as photographers . [ Slang ; late 1800s]
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