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swing and a miss
  1. 1 swing and a miss
  2. 2 (punching and) failing to make contact
  3. 3 (ending in) failure, fruitless effort, vain attempt
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • The batter struck out swinging.

    sense 1 · swing and a miss

  • It was all-or-nothing and we struck out spectacularly.

    sense 3 · (ending in) failure

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