Go pfft


verb phrase

To end or fail; dissolve; break up; fizzle: Their romance went pfft after that/ This year, two ballyhooed mergers have gone phffft/ New opportunities are emerging even as old ones go poof

[1930s+, second form by 1880s; used by gossip columnists; fr the British echoic phrase go phut, ”come to grief, fizzle out,” found by 1888, and imitative of the sound of a dull impact]

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