epic fail

plural epic fails

1. InternetAn utter failure, especially where success should have been reasonably expected.

   Bzzt! Wrong answer! That's what the kids call "epic fail."

   2011, Peter Gould, “Problem Dog”, in Breaking Bad, season 4, episode 7 (television production), spoken by Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk)

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   Maybe next the cloud overhead would open up and a huge cartoon hand emerge from below, pointing at him, accompanied by a thunderous, authorial voice: TOM MERCER. EPIC FAIL.

   2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 131

   The second sentence is saying ‘Gina greedily anticipates even more than the monthly doubling of her bank balance’ — more than is modifying expects. Not the same meaning at all. Sorry computer, epic fail!

   2013, Wendy M. Anderson, Geraldine Woods, Lesley J. Ward, English Grammar Essentials For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 30

   “What, you thought you could flee to Canada and hide from your epic fail? […]

   2014, Lauren Morrill, Being Sloane Jacobs, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 95

   So yeah, epic fail on my part when I didn't recognize one of Kubrick's most iconic works, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

   2014, Leah Raeder, Unteachable, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 29

   I was happy with my new, more sophisticated haircut but the rest of my efforts were pretty much epic fail.

   2014, Sheila Agnew, Central Park Showdown, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN