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- Evinced enthusiasm, with ''up''
- Flopped financially
- Took a loss
- Took the loss, financially
- Across top of Tombstone, ride up and take bullet; finally bit the dust
- Crashed ignominiously
- Issued a mea culpa
- Lost terribly, in slang
- Lost spectacularly, in slang
- Crashed and burned
- Acknowledged one's errors
- Lost big
- Face-planted
- Completely wiped out
- Suffered a humiliating defeat