might-have-beennoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmaɪt.əvˌbiːn/us/ˈmaɪt.əvˌbiːn/something positive that could have been achieved, but was not:
There's no point now in regretting the might-have-beens.
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Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- cock-up
- dead duck
- foul-up
- free fall
- hash
- lemon
- lost cause
- lulu
- mess
- mess-up
- parody
- slush pile
- track record
- train wreck
- turkey
- underachiever
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