flame out
verb
Definition of flame out
intransitive verb
: to fail spectacularly and especially prematurely
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Examples of flame out in a Sentence
even at the reception, some were predicting that the marriage would flame out before the fancy china ever got used
1951
First Known Use of flame out
1951
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