tried and found wanting
tried and discovered to be not effective:
These policies, said the speaker, have been tried and found wanting.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not good enough
- be not on idiom
- beneath
- cop
- deficient
- indefensible
- lame
- leave
- leave a lot to be desired idiom
- never
- on
- palm
- palm sb off with sth
- sad
- second-rate
- unacceptable
- unacceptably
- unsatisfactory
- unsatisfying
- unsound
- weak
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