flunk out

1. Fail at anything, as in The camera ran out of film so we flunked out as photographers . [ Slang ; late 1800s]

2. 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]

Example Sentences

The school is known in wealthy circles as “Dumb White Kids Getting High Together,” but Hilton actually managed to flunk out.

From The Daily Beast

Most men do, I say, they usually work at it, study at it good enough so they don't flunk out.

From Project Gutenberg

“To flunk out” is a vulgar expression for to retire through fear; the most that can be tolerated is, to sneak out.

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"And if you don't want to flunk out you'd better be off to bed at once," Martin told him.

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