close but no cigar

It’s been close, but close but no cigar, so I’m going to keep working and try to get it one day.”

They’ve made it to the NFC championship game four times since — close but no cigar probably gets pretty old after a while, especially with an all-time great at quarterback.

Yet as the aforementioned actress might have said over the years after the Oscar ceremony, Close but no cigar.

“We can’t talk about not getting them without talking about the missed opportunities,” Morris said, “the close but no cigar type of things.”

“At pretty much every level in the buildup of the painting,” said Wieseman, “it’s ‘close, but no cigar.’