Themes
English idioms about failure.
Idioms
- Back to square one
- Close but no cigar
- Don't cry over spilled milk
- Eat humble pie
- Hit rock bottom
- On its last legs
- Paint yourself into a corner
- Pick up the pieces
- The writing is on the wall
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Haste makes waste
- Miss the boat
- The last straw
- Throw in the towel
- Out of the frying pan into the fire