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• Despite all the marketing, our product bombed. Nobody would buy it.
  • Malgré toute la promotion, notre produit a fait un four. Personne ne voulait l’acheter.
• He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.
• Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb!
• It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.
• So Hall quit the job, turned in the company car and went to Chicago, where as a stand-up comic he bombed several times before he was discovered by Nancy Wilson, who took him on the road — where he bombed again before a room of Republicans—and then to Los Angeles.
• Essendon was bombed in the early hours of 3 September 1916; a few houses and part of the church were destroyed, and two sisters killed.
• She was the reason why he bombed the interview. He just couldn′t seem to get her out of his mind.
• Carmen:[...] Then it bombed and it bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I′m trying everything I can but it′s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.
• 15 May: US jets bombed air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally bombing civilian targets. (AP)
• Italy had bombed cities in the Ethiopian war; Italy and Germany had bombed civilians in the Spanish Civil War; at the start of World War II German planes dropped bombs on Rotterdam in Holland, Coventry in England, and elsewhere.
• A pillar of iron[...]which if you had struck, would make[...]a great bomb in the chamber beneath.
• The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb.
• Normally very controlled, he dropped the F-bomb and cursed the paparazzi.
• It was an ordinary speech, until the president dropped a bomb: he would be retiring for medical reasons.
• Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.
• The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb.
• The kids cost a bomb to feed, they eat all the time.
• ‘Not on it, Sal — under it. Presents!’ As we eventually staggered up to bed, Sally said to me, ‘I hope to God he′s not been spending a bomb on presents, too.[...]’
• ‘You′ve already spent a bomb!’
• When Kiley presented Blackpool with the custom shotgun, he said, “This must′ve cost a bomb.”
• make a bomb;  cost a bomb
• After two weeks of driving it she knew the car was a bomb and she did not need anyone saying it to her. The only one allowed to pick on her car was her. Piece of crap car[...]
• We′ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb.
• Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.
• The movie was a bomb, but it put the band before an even larger audience.
• The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa, in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon.
• Projection problems plagued Countess′ London premiere on January 5, 1967, Jerry Epstein recalled, and it was perhaps an omen, for reaction by critics afterward was swift and immediate: The film was a bomb.
• If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.
• During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.