Sentence examples for flat on its face and from inspiring English sources
"The only way we don't surpass three million is if the team falls flat on its face, and I don't think anyone expects that to happen," Wilpon said.
So if history shows that proposed anti-price-gouging legislation has fallen flat on its face, and if two federal agencies have said they haven't found any evidence of price gouging by oil and natural gas companies, and no one has been prosecuted under existing laws for price fixing, then why the new legislation?
We know the logic falls flat on its face and so Christian-affiliated terrorists such as Anders Behring and the Klan are quickly labeled lone rangers who do not represent Christianity.
Often when this pick-and-mix approach is attempted it falls flat on its face, with compromise and inexperience resulting in bland creations.
I'm dryer than the Sahara and had that fall flat on its face many times, and also with journalists.
Sadly it falls flat on its face with insensitivity, lack of good taste, and the tired use of damaging images.
When it's blasted on someone's wall, it feels like you're taking those intimate words, strapping some magenta colored lipstick and a tutu on them and pushing them on stage where the bright lights of 1,687 people reading it are going to watch it twirl and fall flat on its face.
"You don't want the robot to fall flat on its face while it's moving".
The gadget might not work effectively all the time, and it might fall flat on its face in the mainstream consumer market, as many have predicted.
