- DIED
- My phone ___! (excuse for an unreturned call)
- I literally ___
- Passed on
- Turned up one's toes
- Stopped working
- Went out
- Failed at stand-up
- Flopped as a stand-up
- Bought the farm
- Stopped running
- Failed
- Gradually diminished, with "down"
- Went once and for all
- Conked out, as a car
- Gave up the ghost
- Stopped
- Subsided, with "down"
- Faded away
- Quit working
- Conked out
- Bombed, as a stand-up comic
- Fizzled out
- Quit running
- Fell flat
- Went kaput
- Went out, as a fire
- Conked out, as an engine
- Croaked
- Stopped working, as a car
- Stopped, as a motor
- Suffered, as from boredom
- Diminished, with "down"
- Faded in the stretch
- One-liner, part 2
- Didn't make it through committee, as a bill
- Ran out of juice
- Ran out of battery
- Lost power
- Faded out
- Petered out
- Ran out, as a battery
- Lost power, as batteries
- Lost power, as a battery
- Kicked the bucket
- Bit the dust
- Cashed in, so to speak
- Gave out
- Expired.
- Sank.
- Vanished.
- Came to an end.
- Was left on base: Baseball slang.
- Withered.
- Was put out stealing: Baseball.
- What S. Grundy did on Saturday.
- Ceased.
- Languished.
- Was left on base
- Disappeared
- Became extinct
- ___ away (faded out)
- Perished
- Fizzled
- Lost vitality
- Didn't get a single laugh
- Burned out
- Went pffft
- Stopped working, as an engine
- Tombstone word
- Was mortified, hyperbolically
- Was overcome with embarrassment, in slang
- Was incredibly embarrassed, in slang
- Didn't make it
- Went on the fritz
- Broke down
- Word on a gravestone
- I literally ___ (millennial's overstatement)
- Fell off, as laughter
- Laughed and laughed and laughed
- Powered down, in a way
- Went kaput, as a battery
- I literally ___! (embarrassed teen's hyperbole)
- (I Just) ___ in Your Arms Tonight
- Morbid Alice in Chains song
- Ran out of charge
- Gave out, as a battery
- They ___ With Their Boots On (1941)
- They ___ With Their Boots On (1941 film)
- Lost power, as an engine
- Went over like a lead balloon
- Ceased living
- Ran out of power
- Laid an egg at The Improv
- Bombed, theatrically
- ___ down (subsided)
