flunk
verb (used without object)
to fail in a course or examination.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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If Rayburn gets the measure passed, the Kennedy-Ives bill rates no more than a B. And if it dies, the 85th Congress will have flunked cold.
From Time Magazine Archive
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