miss fire 的定义
- Fail to achieve the anticipated result, as in Recycling cardboard seemed like a good idea but it missed fire. First recorded in 1727, this phrase originally described a firearm failing to go off and has been used figuratively since the mid-1800s.
miss fire 近义词
等同于 miscarry
miss fire 的近义词 43 个
- abort
- fall through
- backslide
- blunder
- decline
- deteriorate
- fall
- fizzle
- flop
- flounder
- fold
- founder
- misfire
- miss
- slip
- back wrong horse
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- break down
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- fall flat
- fall short
- go astray
- go down
- go down swinging
- go downhill
- go up in smoke
- go wrong
- hit bottom
- hit the skids
- lose control
- lose out
- lose status
- meet with disaster
- miss the boat
- miss the mark
- play into
- run aground
- turn out badly
miss fire 的反义词 11 个
更多miss fire例句
- But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
- Myerson herself appears to have bought into that stigma, offering mixed to negative views on the Miss America pageant.
- So, why no Jewess in the mix of more recent and diverse Miss Americas?
- Her Miss America win transcended mere superficial beauty standards.
- In 1995, Myerson made a point not to attend the 75th anniversary of the Miss America pageant.
- But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.
- But with all her advantages Miss Solomonson failed with the old lord, and she abuses him to this day.
- The strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
- He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
- Miss Christabel blushed furiously and emitted a sound half between a laugh and a scream.