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What does fall flat mean?

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  1. To produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect.
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Without a studio audience to warm things up, Vaughan's attempts to jolly things along fall flat to the sounds of nervous giggles from the crew.
The impact caused me to trip over my two feet and fall flat on my stomach, dropping Gabriella.
A book that's not bad in context that would fall flat presented in modern terms.
Ironically the only covers which seem to fall flat here are the film tie-in editions which look stodgy next to the originally designed covers.
The snaps between characters fall flat, and all other attempts at comedy simply wither and die.
As it is, their jokes fall flat and it is not due to any lack of talent by the artists involved.

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