Possible Clues:

• Crashed ignominiously
• Took the loss, financially
• Evinced enthusiasm, with ''up''
• Suffered a face-plant
• Had to accept the loss
• What the dog did with the homework?
• Dug the experience, with "up"
• Wiped out in a big way
• Suffered a financial setback, slangily
• Suffered ignominious failure, in slang