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come to a standstill
vs
fizzle out
come to a standstill
fizzle out
verb
To lose excitement, to become less exciting; to end, fail or die out in a weak or disappointing way.
How often have the words
come to a standstill
and
fizzle out
occurred in a corpus of books?
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Google Ngram Viewer
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