on the rocks
informal likely to fail soon:
I think their marriage is on the rocks.
If you have an alcoholic drink on the rocks, you have it with pieces of ice:
I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please.
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Unsuccessful (people and things)
- abortive
- achiever
- barren
- be dead in the water idiom
- botched
- counterproductive
- flatline
- frustrated
- futile
- go/get/head nowhere idiom
- inauspicious
- lame duck
- small-time
- stillborn
- struggling
- the doldrums
- unavailing
- unglued
- unpromising
- washed up
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