English Experts

[taimeno]

Como eu digo "Cair do cavalo" em inglês. Esta expressão é utilizada quando acreditamos em algo, ficamos na expectativa e acaba dando errado.

[Thomas]

Poderia ser?
"He promised me a job but he gave it to his nephew. He let me down."
"He agreed to pay back the loan within 60 days, but he let me down and did not pay anything."

[timphillips]

How about "to come a cropper" ? Similar in literal meaning and probably appropriate idiomatically

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-com2.htm
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/come-a-cropper.html
Tim

[Adriano Japan]

acho que poderia usar fell flat on the face = quebrar a cara

[pondedaniel]

dependendo do contexto: fall short

http://dpenglish.blogspot.com/2010/09/e ... short.html

[donay mendonça]

Complementando,

Levando-se em conta que 'quebrar a cara' e 'cair do cavalo' podem ter significados semelhantes, sugiro, então, 'fall flat on your face'.


Boa sorte!

[dlr]

sugiro "to fall through" nas situações em que seus planos não rolam

We were planning a surprise party for Donay's birthday but it fell through when he came home early.

[Adriano Japan]

*Adding:

(something) was a letdown:

A "letdown" is something that wasn't as good as you expected it to be. Here are some things that might be letdowns:

a movie that looked good in previews, but was boring when you watched it
an album by a singer that you used to like, but who has now changed her style
a restaurant that you read good reviews of, but didn't like when you went there

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