The phrase "a failing out" is not correct in standard English; the correct expression is "a falling out." You can use "a falling out" to describe a disagreement or dispute that leads to a breakdown in a relationship or friendship.
Example: "After their argument, it was clear that they had experienced a falling out."
Alternatives: "a dispute" or "a rift".
But to slide along the knife's edge, to flirt with failure without failing out: this takes real talent.
He thinks it's a failing institution, pointing out how WikiLeaks exposed that interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile leaked questions to the Clinton campaign when she was with CNN.
The plot revolves around Marieme, a shy, luminous girl with dark, smooth skin, long cornrows, and high cheekbones who is more of a nurturing caretaker to her sisters than her overworked single mother is, but who, as a result, is failing out of school.
And when the United States needed a strong institution to bail out a failing bank, it turned — twice — to JPMorgan Chase.
Mr. Emanuel has been walking a careful line: saying sweeping changes are needed but, at the same time, never quite pointing out a failing or misstep by Mr. Daley.
Now he runs a failing tavern and lashes out at everyone and everything: his adoring wife, Nora Ellen Crawfordd); his serpent's tooth of a daughter, Sara Tessa Kleinn); his humbled circumstances.
In a series of heated exchanges, Ms Batmanghelidjh repeatedly denied Kids Company had been a failing organisation and hit out at officials, who she claimed had sought to undermine it.
Set in the early 2000s, my new play, Playing with Fire, begins with the dispatch of a New Labour fixer to sort out a failing but defiantly Old Labour council in west Yorkshire.
He is seeking to amend clause 119 of the care bill, dubbed the "hospital closure clause", which as it stands would give a "trust special administrator" appointed to sort out a failing hospital trust the power to order changes in the makeup of another local hospital's services as part of an overall solution, including downgrading it or even shutting it.
Still, for those of us who still can't quite imagine how you can go from leaving school at 16 to being chosen to sort out a failing council – how you can go from anywhere to running a council – more detail would have been nice.
