fail miserably

Why is it called “Uncle Vanya”? All the man does is mope, mope harder, try to do something other than moping, fail miserably and mope some more.

“With us struggling, and finally getting that chance to try and get off this losing streak and get called upon to do what I’m supposed to do and then fail miserably, it’s disappointing,” Sewald said.

"They're a technology company. Try to pin that one on me, you're going to fail miserably on that one."

“He was promising a solution, only to then fail miserably in the eyes of the public,” Meg Jacobs, a Princeton University historian, told The Washington Post in 2021.

Some do it well and some fail miserably.