fizzle out

They fizzle out if they lack the character which the woman admires.

And if he gets to knowing how good he is, hes likely to get fond of himself and fizzle out.

I always heard that the sun c'd force a feller to take his coat off, when the wind made a dead fizzle out of the job.

The first is that mysterious nullifying force by which such movements usually do fizzle out.

But if you do, Henderson will back out, and Brace, and the whole thing will fizzle out before its fairly begun.