Euro 1992 was a flop for Germany, and at USA '94 a team torn apart by internal strife were disastrously eliminated by unfancied Bulgaria. |
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It may seem ungracious to describe Galway's loss to Mayo in the Connacht under-21 football semi-final in Castlebar last Wednesday as a flop. |
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I could have stayed alive in the tournament by making a small raise on the flop rather than going all-in. |
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With a hard yank from Bren, Pryce managed to flop across the horse's back on his stomach. |
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A massive flop in America, the film is better than you feared but not nearly as good as you might have hoped. |
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They walked along the same succulent sea by which pasty-white holiday makers tend to flop in order to obtain coffee brown tans. |
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It seems that whenever she gets a little tired of hopping with her peg leg, she will flop wherever she happens to be. |
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With quite the most eccentric vocal performance of this, or indeed of any other Eurovision, this could either sweep the board or flop completely. |
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As for the rest of us, the latest installment to the Zorro story is a complete flop if not for the fact that it wields that beloved swashbuckler. |
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A loose chinstrap allows a helmet to flop around, and thereby leaves you, the user, susceptible to injury in the event of a crash. |
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Whereas the flop of the N-Gage was easy to predict, the future of these two is harder to see. |
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Begin to stake early-flowering herbaceous plants, such as peonies, that are inclined to flop over following rain and strong winds. |
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Everyone who's normal should flop around their homes aimlessly without a stitch of clothing on at least once a month. |
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Of course, I had never seen a weighted, jangling, belly-swollen giant flop down a chimney and gaily dispense his largesse under a Christmas tree. |
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I promptly filled the sink with water and dunked my head in, letting my ebony locks flop messily to the sides of my face. |
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Judged on those criteria, the tour is undoubtedly a flop of monumental proportions. |
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Just remember, a four-flush with A-K on the flop is a powerful hand that should be played aggressively. |
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It broke down not because it met with stiff physical resistance from security forces but more because it was an ideological flop. |
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The door swung open and Kata walked in, dragging herself across the room to flop down on the couch, exhaling loudly. |
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Yes, the film is very quirky and offbeat, which means it'll probably be a commercial flop. |
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Although it would be possible to flop a four-flush or flush, the hand would have little value unless you held the A of the suit. |
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The sand of the beach shimmers under the African sun, and the wavelets that lazily flop onto the shore are crystal clear. |
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It was a commercial flop, but made waves with critics and industry kingmakers. |
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If you flop a four flush or an open-ended straight you can continue if the pot odds justify it, especially if you are drawing to the nuts. |
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Then, with chilled air pouring in down the back of my neck, you flop into your seat, oblivious. |
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They dropped a rope ladder that fell with a flop all the way to the ground. |
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He hadn't been out of the flop in three weeks except to go to a corner store and buy food. |
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But this turned out to be a flop in Italy and has fared little better elsewhere. |
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He, being weak, was a total flop at sports and athletics, so he was all the jocks' favorite victim. |
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I specifically voted against him on the sole basis that he flip-flopped on something or other and could very well flip flop again. |
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He grinned mindlessly at his stupid analogy, moving to go and flop on the couch again, though this time with energy and not-so-much black. |
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The area was swarming with people the way a school of fish in a net would flop about. |
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But you do flop every two plays and you mostly have no reason to argue since most calls go your way, no? |
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Why does a team with that much talent feel the need to flop every other play? |
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A delightful surprise is Waiting in the Wings, Coward's fiftieth play, an undeserved flop in 1960 and a greatly deserving revival now. |
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So he mounted the blocks in his resplendent blue trunks and did a massive belly flop on the starters gun. |
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We had a feeling it would either go like hot cakes or flop so we ordered a middling amount and we were about right. |
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The flower stems tend to flop and I find it best grown through other plants or some twiggy sticks. |
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As a result, the album was a relative flop, failing to sell even one million copies. |
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Two years after the introduction of picture messaging in Europe, MMS is still a flop. |
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His win in California this year exorcised the memory of a famous flop in the same event two years ago. |
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Rather than admit the great man is in fact a great flop, they label these dedicated economic soldiers as treacherous. |
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Published in 1941 in a country mobilizing for war, the book was a commercial flop. |
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Pull the releases toward you, and the seat backs flop forward under the motive power of gravity. |
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Predictions that the jubilee would flop have proved to be wildly inaccurate. |
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So many cold decks, one after the other, makes me wonder what I have to flop to win a pot? |
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So he mounted the blocks in his resplendent blue Speedos and did a massive unco belly flop on the starters gun. |
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Finally, there is a five-metre body of water that I'll inelegantly call a flop pool. |
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The outcome of the seat-sharing imbroglio was like an anti-climax in a Bollywood flop. |
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The costumes, in other words, act as Procrustean beds, amputating those pesky limbs of anthropological knowledge that flop outside their predetermined grids. |
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All investors should realize that the majority of shares sold at initial public offerings flop and fail to recover the price that they were sold at. |
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Smith is pale and gangly, sporting a flop of dirty blond hair and a strikingly deep voice. |
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When Fernandez got control of AirAsia it had been a limping, government-subsidized flop. |
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Not surprisingly, the per diem proposal has been a flop since Moran floated it a few weeks ago. |
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Google so far has floundered in the living room, with a half-baked product called Google TV that was a total flop. |
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What could have been a frilly flop was given weight by DiCaprio and Mulligan, and Maguire, too. |
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The key decision making and tactical maneuvers take place after the flop. |
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Much as it may disappoint the flop of mediocrities who have decided to pursue power in Edinburgh, the Scottish executive was not created to be a national government. |
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That's what Lindsay's character did in the 2009 straight-to-cable flop labor pains. |
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He was the son of a servant of the Crown from a well-heeled South of England background, who shone at prep school but proved something of an academic flop later on. |
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Even his controversial television series The Human Face was not a complete flop, demonstrating that he was rather a good interviewer, unpatronising and genuinely curious. |
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There's a new movie based on a hit Broadway play that was based on an earlier movie about a Broadway play that's supposed to flop, but it's an unexpected smash. |
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In Tom's World, it's always better to try a swan dive and deliver a colossal belly flop than to step timidly off the board while holding your nose. |
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Those are the universes where people thought that Mighton's stage play was a miserable flop, a clever-clever intellectual exercise with no emotional weight. |
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Apparently movies flop because of texting, instant messaging and email. |
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To my surprise it's a young boy with a freckled, eager face and brown hair styled to flop over one eye, wearing black, carrying a rucksack and a bag. |
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The problem is they spent too much time teaching him to flop in practice. |
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The asynchronously resettable flop immediately responds to a rising edge on reset, but the synchronously resettable flop responds to reset only on the rising edge of the clock. |
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The book came out 30 years ago, and the film was an even bigger flop than that after-school Scrabble club you tried to start. |
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Back walkover, flip flop, flip flop, double back with a hop. |
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Lo and behold, the Ipanema flip flop with a strap is from Melissa, one of Brazil's largest footwear companies and the originator of the jelly shoe. |
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The actor, who has had many rebirths in the industry, says he bounces back after a flop by lying low for six months to enable the public to forget the movie. |
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His solution last season was to give chase a big flop and make him work superhard for a comeback. |
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The Fosbury flop couldn't have come from a New Englander, and Olympic high jumpers wouldn't be jumping as high without it. |
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We'd heard about him, stuck on Pharos, the Parthia flop still shamin him, and the ship thing soon after. |
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Cute gentoo penguins rocket from the depths of their tank to flop out on the ice as the thermometer drops. |
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A poisened foot was found to be the cause of that flop, but odds-on Paco was just too hot this time. |
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Just before his 1997 departure, Schlondorff produced the 27 million mark flop Der Unhold. |
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And boyo it's highly amusing to see Ex Factor flop Mr Jones attempting to maintain his trademark cockiness after crashing and burning in America. |
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Sad Bramley apple with flop of a crop 6 I brought a Bramley apple tree two years ago with three apples on it. |
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Low-fi indie spin on the cringy kind of story that wasn't any funnier in Jon Heder's 2007 flop, Mama's Boy. |
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Then, just a few years back, he didn't just fall from grace, he did the most enormous belly flop. |
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An Aseman Airlines passenger jet made a belly flop landing Saturday at Zahedan airport, but there were no deaths and few injuries. |
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Special sessions are nearly always a sign of a big emergency or a big legislative belly flop. |
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The studio clearly overspent on marketing, and the movie was still a flop. |
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It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year. |
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The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop. |
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Billy Vine, covered with flop sweat, started so-so, but in a few minutes he had them. |
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In large individuals, the dorsal fin may flop to one side when above the surface. |
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Gibbon's Memoires Litteraires failed to gain any notoriety, and was considered a flop by fellow historians and literary scholars. |
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Fond memories of Party Wright Around The World as flop specialist Mark staged yet another of his sparsely attended knees-ups for hardly anyone. |
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Their take on the flip flop is to pile a load of fake jewels on a leather flip flop. |
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Maybe LaRussa realized that even if Rogers had pine tar on his hand, the rest of the Tigers had flop sweat on theirs. |
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We'll soon be offering fizzy footbaths for flip flop wearers using our bath bombs. |
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If he was good at Aintree last month after his Cheltenham flop, he was sensational at Punchy. |
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Castle'' does a difficult double belly flop as it manages to be howlingly simplistic and ridiculously illogical at the same time. |
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Let's say you're holding the Queen and Jack of spades and the flop shows the King of diamonds, 10 of hearts and seven of clubs. |
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There's no flop, turn or river, although with four betting rounds, five-card stud can produce much bigger pots than say, draw poker. |
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There's strong stench of talentlessness that reeks from every frame of El Sakka's second flop in a row. |
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Top-seeded Carolina Kostner of Italy, the 2005 world bronze medalist, was the flop of the event in winding up seventh. |
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I don't like to throw in my hole cards and then watch them be repeated in the flop, robbing me of a full house or a mouthwatering peach of a flush. |
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There are the own-goals, the bungling keepers, the bad haircuts, the miskicks, the expensive players who flop and the manager who sits in the wrong dugout. |
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Let's review the strategies for the pre-flop, flop, turn and river. |
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Luckily the gaff shot backboned the fish, so it didn't flop much. |
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What with the kerfuffle over the unscheduled departures of hopeless flop Gemma Collins and grief-stricken Craig Charles, week one of I'm A Celeb was a wash-out. |
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And when he had hooked a fine perch, and Miss BELL made a dash at the line, And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'S escape from a cuss cut it fine. |
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It might still flop, making early yea-sayers like me look daft. |
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The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands. |
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Maybe the most egregious flip flop faux pas of all was back in 2005, when members of Northwest University's championship women's lacrosse team wore them to the White House. |
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It has been suggested that the whole project was an expensive flop. |
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Don't feed sedums as too much growth will make them flop over. |
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Gilbert next wrote The Mountebanks with Alfred Cellier and the flop Haste to the Wedding with George Grossmith, and Sullivan wrote Haddon Hall with Sydney Grundy. |
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Inventor of the Fosbury flop technique used by high jumpers. |
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The flop comes down the Jack of hearts, Jack of clubs, and 4 of spades. |
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The proverbial fence-jumping sheep have been handed their P45s and sent to be re-skilled in the Fosbury Flop in time for the London Olympics. |
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He won the gold medal and set a world record with the Fosbury Flop, the style used by most high-jumpers today. |
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But Pray had friends in the Seattle bands Young Fresh Fellows, Flop and the Fastbacks. |
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Flip Flop Flo, the Know-It-All is the story of a sweet smarty-pants who longs for shoeless summers. |
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Flop backwards on Hewitt's tailblock and you're going home in a bodybag. |
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