Sentence examples for real flop from inspiring English sources
"real flop" is a legitimate expression that is used in written English
It is typically used to refer to something that has been considered a complete failure or has not been successful. For example: "The sequel was a real flop at the box office, making only a fraction of its predecessor's earnings."
RICHARD WILLIAMS, THE GUARDIAN: England's rugby union team were a real flop this year, despite the presence of Martin Johnson, the 2003 World Cup-winning captain, as manager.
While it will go on to Madrid and Moscow -- where it will play the Kremlin -- it's no accident that "Zarkana" starts in New York, the site of what Mr. Lalibert dmits is the company's first real flop.
This is not unlike Pixar taking its first hit with the comparatively conventional The Good Dinosaur or Marvel's only real flop being the artistically constrained and relatively weak The Incredible Hulk.
Also, in the realm of good news, the new batch of Star Wars movies has had (presumably) its first real flop via the least artistically justifiable, most explicitly cynical and most comparatively generic offering yet.
Nor does the third-rate Chandler-esque narration by Rorschach help...Looks like we have the first real flop of 2009".
But his more recent films have been real flops.
The number of complex flops for calculating the IFFT over M samples can be written as 1.5M log(M) while the number of real flops can be writtenb as 4M log(M −6M+8 as in the split-radix.
Take the whole thing out of the oven (wearing oven mitts, of course) once you notice some real "flopping" going on.
This summer staple might be a real health flop.
"People want [to seek out] a professional to put what they learned online into context for them," Molony says, noting that buyers' willingness to purchase homes "as is" and without proper inspections was a contributing factor in the nation's infamous real estate flop.
