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Meaning: (figurative,idiomatic)Anotablelet-downorflop; aconcept,product,orpersonthat hasfailedtolive upto very highexpectations.1969,John Ardagh,The New French Revolution,page359:And it is just because [Sartre’s] early post-war influence was so great, and his intellectual magnetism so hypnotic, that today he has left such disarray among intellectuals throughout France. God has failed him; but he, too, is agod that failed. Today his public utterances still make headlines, but his real leadership has passed.1980September 18, Gary Herman, “Highway 61 re-routed”, inNew Society, volume53, number931, page571:Only the ones who stay away can come to terms with [Bob] Dylan’s new irrelevance. He never pretended to have any answers and, now that he seems to have no questions either, he may finally have made it into the ranks of thegods that failed.1996, Richard G. Fox, “Self-Made”, in Wimal Dissanayake, editor,Narratives of Agency: Self-Making in China, India, and Japan,→ISBN,page108:Still, reflexive anthropologists are right: the idea of a neatly tied-up ethnographic package, of a realist ethnography that was temporal, functionalist, and unmindful of inequality and power—that was certainly agod that failed.2009May 18,Dwayne Day, “Thegod that failed”, inThe Space Review:At its best, the space colonization vision was sophisticated daydreaming, not a future that a large number of Americans wanted to make happen. The vision had its shot and never caught on, despite appearing in the pages of a highly reputable magazine and gaining the attention of political decision makers. [See title]2010October 14,Martin Kettle, “Shed no tears for Liverpool: our football needs deflating”, inThe Guardian:Get real about English football. It is agod that failed. Stop worshipping it. It is the reflection of the unbalanced, short-termist hedonism of the financial boom era.2011, Jayeeta Sharma,Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India,→ISBN,page13:For most Assam locals, tea eventually became thegod that failed.
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