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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. Words nearby miss firemis-sell, missel thrush, missend, missense, missense mutation, miss fire, misshape, misshapen, missile, missileer, missile gap The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to miss fireabort, fall through, decline, founder, flounder, misfire, flop, blunder, fold, fizzle, slip, fall, miss, backslide, deteriorate, go down, back wrong horse, break down, come to naught, come to nothing |