| 释义 |
flame out1(Of a jet engine) lose power through the extinction of the flame in the combustion chamber. 1.1 informal, chiefly North American Fail badly or conspicuously: he and the rest of the team flamed out in the last three minutes...- Its attempt to export its New York City clothing sensibilities to the Midwest and West Coast flamed out, he says, because management failed to do market research on the tastes of non-New Yorkers.
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