Meanings
present singular third person falls at the final hurdle · participle present falling at the final hurdle · past fell at the final hurdle · participle past fallen at the final hurdle
- Synonym of fall at the last hurdle.
On the other hand, Crossrail fell at its final hurdle, admitting just months before its planned December 2018 opening that it was nowhere near ready.
2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Ten Eventful Years and Plenty of Talking Points”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54Synonyms: fall at the last hurdle
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verbSynonym of fall at the last hurdle.
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fall at the final hurdle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fall%20at%20the%20final%20hurdle
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