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Over Decades, Congress Failed Repeatedly to Address Immigration Dysfunction

Legislative initiatives to overhaul immigration policy have fallen flat as partisan differences and other rifts have scuttled attempts at compromise.

Plans to Fight Global Warming Face an Obstacle in Paris: Trees

As a new heat wave bakes Europe, critics say that efforts to make the city greener have led to the felling of trees essential to combating rising temperatures.

Draining mangrove swamps is even more harmful than felling rainforest
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If a joke, idea, or suggestion falls flat, it does not have the intended effect:

He made several jokes and each of them fell flat.

fall flat

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to not be funny or entertaining:

Some of the jokes were pretty funny, others fell flat.

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gerund or present participle: felling

1. 1.

   cut down (a tree).

   "33 million trees are felled each day"

   相似詞：

   cut down

   chop down

   hack down

   saw down

   knock down

   hew

   demolish

   tear down

   bring down

   raze

   level

   clear
2. 2.

   stitch down (the edge of a seam) to lie flat.

   "a flat-felled seam"