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| lights out(death, passing, decease) | |
| nervous collapse | |
| nervous prostration | |
| no good(bungler, sponger, lounger, debauchee) | |
| nose dive(noun, drop, decrease, reduction) | |
| not enough | |
| not worth | |
| nothing doing(noun, check) | |
| old one-two(defeat, blow, hindrance, prevention) | |
| on the skids(noun, idiom, drop, fall) | |
| opposite of success | |
| peck of troubles(idiom, adversity) | |
| poor result | |
| poor results | |
| reality check(blow, letdown, disillusionment) | |
| sea of troubles(idiom, adversity) | |
| slap in face(idiom, check) | |
| slap in the face(noun, idiom, check) | |
| slip of the tongue(idiom, mistake, error, blunder) | |
| slip up(overestimation, howlers) |
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