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• take it on the chin go
  undergo failure or defeat
  
• miss go
  fail to reach or get to
  
• overreach go
  fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
  
• bobble, bungle, flub, botch, fumble, muff, fluff, blow, spoil, screw up, mess up, bumble, muck up, mishandle, bodge, botch up, ball up, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, louse up, foul up, fuck up go
  make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  
• strike out go
  be unsuccessful in an endeavor
  
• fall go
  suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
  
• shipwreck go
  suffer failure, as in some enterprise
  
• flop, founder, fall through, fall flat go
  fail utterly