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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.Advertisement
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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