fall at the final hurdle

fall at the final hurdle
fall at the first/final/hurdle fall at the first final fence phrase
to fail at the beginning or near the end of something that you are trying to do
Thesaurus: to fail, or to stop being successfulsynonym
Main entry: fall

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