fizzle : Idioms & Phrases

Index

fizzle out

  • verb end weakly
    taper off; peter out; fizzle.
    • The music just petered out--there was no proper ending
WordNet

To fizzle out

  • to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and ridicuously; to prove a failure. Colloq.
Webster 1913