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Idioms and Phrases

Lose a chance for, fail to achieve, as in Ruth came late to the party and missed out on all the fun , or Trudy missed out on the promotion . [First half of 1900s] Also see lose out , def. 2.
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Nevertheless, the figure United would miss out on is eye-watering and would be bound to impact on their transfer strategy, on top of reducing the attractiveness of joining the Old Trafford outfit in the first place.

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On Tuesday in the Senedd Morgan made a statement on steel funding, and whether Port Talbot would miss out on its share of £2.5bn set aside for steel by the UK government because the money will end up in Scunthorpe instead.

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If you only just miss out on the grades you need to get on to a university or college course, the admissions office might accept you anyway or offer you a place on a different course.

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Les Bleues last travelled to Twickenham in 2023, where they scored 33 second-half points to narrowly miss out on an incredible comeback.

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The consequences of these delays are profound: children miss out on critical early interventions; families face unnecessary stress, and our society loses the opportunity to fully support neurodiverse individuals from the start.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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