Possible Questions:
- Eager
- Flopping, as a business
- Fizzling out
- Faulkner's "As I Lay ___"
- Subsiding (with "down")
- Failing on the stage
- Expiring
- "I am ___, Egypt . . . ": Shak.
- Very eager (to)
- Subsiding, with "down"
- Really anxious (to know)
- Performing very badly, as a comedian
- Not getting many laughs, as a comedian
- Losing power, like a battery
- Losing power
- Like a graying ember
- Ira Levin's "A Kiss Before ___"
- Going out, like a fire
- Going out, as a fire
- Flopping on stage
- Flopping at a comedy club
- Failing onstage
- Fading away
- Desperately longing (to)
- Desiring greatly, with "for"
- Declining, as embers
- Declining, as a fire
- Bombing, on stage
- Bombing, as a comic
- Bombing, as a comedian
- Bombing on stage
- Becoming extinct, with "out"
- About to go out
- "I am ___, Egypt . . . "
- "___ is for fools. Amateurs."
- " . . . despised and ___ king": Shelley
- ___ swan
- ___ quail (bloop hit)