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To fizzle out

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	to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder;
	to fail completely and ridiculously; to prove a failure.

See also: fizzle fizzle

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discontinue
fizzle
fizzle out
Hissing
Hushing

peter out
Sibilation
taper
taper off

It looked as if the great assault threatened for that night were going to fizzle out.

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To find the latchstring out
To fine
To fire up
To fish the anchor
To fit out
To fit up
To fix on
To fizzle out
To flap in the mouth
To flare up
To flash in the pan
To flat out
To flatten a sail
To fling about
To fling away

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