The argument that her target audience consists of sophisticated gourmets at farmers' markets fell flat, too.
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While the request yielded a pantry-full of nifty additions, one popular suggestion fell flat.
After trying my new jokes at my next gig, I was disappointed when they fell flat.
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But it fell flat, says Lynn Dornblaser, director of innovation and insight for market research firm Mintel.
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After Mr. Lee died in 1973, Hollywood's attempts to put Western (white) actors in his place fell flat.
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Some were popular, some struck a nerve, and others just plain fell flat!
The previously-tense atmosphere suddenly fell flat and Chelsea looked set to comfortably take their place in the fifth round.
Visa (V) and Cisco Systems ( CSCO) delivered beats on their earnings, and Groupon (GRPN) fell flat.
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The expected challenge from 7-2 favourite Pedrillo fell flat and Sir Mark Prescott's horse finished well down the field.
Its tale of impoverished urban outcasts fell flat as audiences turned to sensational gangster flicks and treacly family dramas.
People left comments that corrected a few facts and let us know where our writing inspired and when it fell flat.
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Then, a few short months later, talks fell flat and it looked like the idea was going to die on the vine.
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Forgot to put on my pants and fell flat on my ass.
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The attempt to overhaul Social Security, you know, fell flat on its face, so maybe Bill Thomas is getting out at the right time.
Most of these developments fell flat because as they built, greed kicked in along with price increases and the majority of people walked away.
He started to fall again, caught himself, froze in a hunched-over position, hurtled forward, fell flat on his face, chucked his chin on a root.
Mr Ignatieff's proposal to give Quebec special status boosted his fortunes there but fell flat with Canadians elsewhere, who are tired of decades of constitutional wrangling.
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The corny "spilled milk" joke that fell flat in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address was instantly panned on Twitter, reactions people could analyze in real time, Costolo noted.
The game ended in comical fashion when Hooper rounded goalkeeper Pernis but stubbed his toe and fell flat on his face as he tried to score seconds before having another effort chalked off after a questionable offside decision.
She tried to defeat - Hillary Clinton did - Barack on a foreign policy platform at the end there that fell flat on its face as far as not talking to your enemies and keeping up that blustery cold war attitude that the Republicans like.
He warmed up his audience with rugby references, warmed the cockles of Labour hearts with his take on last week's Budget - "the best George Osborne hoped to do was not to screw it up like he did last year" - and went on the attack over growth predictions that fell flat, borrowing predictions that have soared.
Labor participation fell or stayed flat in the recessions of 1973-75, 1981-82 and 1990-91, but then rebounded and kept climbing in the expansions that followed.
Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially flat, fell 1.6 percentage points to 19.0%.
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