fizzle, dig in, out of the ordinary, in ordinary, hullabaloo, fizzled-out, hold one's ground

As Russia Digs In, What’s the Risk of Nuclear War? ‘It’s Not Zero.’

More Fizzle Than Sizzle on Amazon's Prime Day

By HIROKO TABUCHI

The much-ballyhooed 20th anniversary discount event is awash in complaints of lackluster products and interminable waiting.  2022.2.1

Democratic Crossover Push in Michigan Fizzles
Exit polls show that Dem support of Rick Santorum wasn't out of the ordinary.UPDATE: The Democratic crossover vote didn't deliver Rick Santorum a victory in Michigan's heavily-contested primary on Tuesday. And the effort to bolster it—from liberals and social conservatives alike—may not have even made much of a difference in the final vote tallies.



War of Words Heats Up Over Cadbury Kraft Foods ratcheted up the rhetoric in its takeover battle for Cadbury, as the two sides dug in for what is likely to be a months-long merger saga.

While Holding His Ground, Obama Says He's Willing To Compromise
In a letter to congressional leaders, Obama refused to give up on comprehensive health care reform, but he did identify four Republican proposals that he's willing to consider.

Main Entry: hold one's ground Part of Speech: verb Definition: stay in one place Synonyms: hold fast, not budge, persevere, persist, stand one's ground, stay pat Deal Professor: The Fizzled-Out Bidding War for Southern Union Southern Union's shareholders are richer for all the hullabaloo, but the Deal Professor asks whether a better-run process might have produced even more value.

in ordinary　常任の (a physician in ～ 侍医）.

After their return, he was in 1761 appointed to succeed John Shackelton as principal "painter in ordinary"常任宮廷畫師 to George III, beating Hudson to the post; and so fully employed was he on the royal portraits which the king was in the habit of presenting to ambassadors and colonial governors, that he was forced to take advantage of the services of a host of assistants--of whom David Martin and Philip Reinagle are the best known.

Allan Ramsay

hullabaloo,

also hul·la·bal·loo (hŭl'ə-bə-lū') 
n., pl., -loos, also -loos.
Great noise or excitement; uproar. See synonyms at noise.

[Alteration of obsolete hollo-ballo, probably from holla, hello. See hello.]

dig in
1. Excavate trenches to defend oneself in battle and hold one's position, as in The battalion dug in and held on. This usage gained currency in the trench warfare of World War I. [Mid-1800s]
2. Also, dig in one's heels. Adopt a firm position, be obstinate and unyielding. For example, Arthur refused to argue the point and simply dug in, or The dog dug in its heels and refused to move. [Colloquial; late 1800s]
3. Begin to work intensively, as in If we all dig in it'll be done before dark. [Colloquial; second half of 1800s]
4. Also, dig into. Begin to eat heartily, as in Even before all the food was on the table they began to dig in, or When the bell rang, the kids all dug into their lunches. [Colloquial; early 1900s]

As Champagne Fizzles, Makers Squash Supply Grape growers and Champagne bottlers agreed to pick 32% fewer grapes this year, leaving excess fruit on the ground, in a move to counter fizzling bubbly sales.

1 : to cover or incorporate by burying dig in compost. 2 : to establish in a dug defensive position the platoon was well dug in. intransitive verb. 1 : to establish a defensive position especially by digging trenches. 2a : to go resolutely to work.

Dig in Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

fiz·zle (fzl)

intr.v. fiz·zled, fiz·zling, fiz·zles

1. To make a hissing or sputtering sound.

2. Informal To fail or end weakly, especially after a hopeful beginning.

n. Informal

A failure; a fiasco.

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[Probably from obsolete fise, a breaking wind, from Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse fsa, to break wind.]

Word History: Philemon Holland, in his 1601 translation of Pliny's Natural History, wrote that if asses eat a certain plant, "they will fall a fizling and farting." Holland's asses provide a vivid example of the original meaning of the word fizzle, which was, in the decorous phrasing of the Oxford English Dictionary, "to break wind without noise." During the 19th century fizzle took on a related but more respectable sense, "to hiss, as does a piece of fireworks," illustrated by a quotation from the November 7, 1881, issue of the London Daily News: "unambitious rockets which fizzle doggedly downwards." In the same century fizzle also took on figurative senses, one of which seems to have been popular at Yale. The Yale Literary Magazine for 1849 helpfully defines the word as follows: "Fizzle, to rise with modest reluctance, to hesitate often, to decline finally; generally, to misunderstand the question." The figurative sense of fizzle that has caught on is the one most familiar today, "to fail or die out."

fizzle

 noun

Definition of fizzle (Entry 2 of 2)

: an abortive effort : FAILURE

Fizzled out means to die or have died.

out of the ordinary - Common Phrases / Idioms Dictionary ...

out of the ordinary definition: Unusual, uncommon, exceptional, as in The venison they served was certainly out of the ordinary. This expression sometimes, but ...