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wither on the vine



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Idioms and Phrases

Fail to come to fruition, as in This building project will wither on the vine if they don't agree on a price . This expression alludes to grapes shriveling and drying up because they were not picked when ripe.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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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