fizzle
Origin of fizzle
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Contemporary Examples of fizzle
Could Occupy Wall Street yet prove a harbinger rather than a fizzle?
He predicted that without more mobilization and pressure from outside, reform could “fizzle.”
But the thing about phenoms is they can come in hot and then fizzle into a lower voltage of play.
If U.S.-Pakistan cooperation were in fact to fizzle, clearly such operations would be compromised.
Protests have come and gone, and plans for large-scale demonstrations often fizzle.
Historical Examples of fizzle
It was a lot easier just to let her explode and then fizzle out.
The Odyssey of Sam MeechamCharles E. Fritch
And I must say, as a raid in force, it was more or less of a fizzle.
Torchy and VeeSewell Ford
The Raid was a fizzle and the commander and all his men were captured by the Boers.
An African AdventureIsaac F. Marcosson
It is a fizzle, a twentieth-century abomination—an invention with no room for an ad.
Perkins of PortlandEllis Parker Butler
You must be so well equipped that you will not make life a “fizzle.”
'Boy Wanted'Nixon Waterman