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Mia Le
2021-03-14 08:03
Go down like a lead balloon British American humorous
Something that you say or show to people causes displeasure or be badly received
Ken's joke about the sheep went down like a lead balloon.
Laura's new ideas about recycling plastic went down like a lead balloon.
We are conducting the research to find out the reasons why customers go down like a lead balloon with our products.
The phrase starts with a verb, therefore, it needs to be conjugated in the sentence.
There are two version of this phrase, in the UK is "Go down like a lead baloon" while it is "Go over like a lead baloon" in the US. In June 1924, this phrase was firstly used in the America cartoon - Mom-N Pop. In May 1947, it was appeared again in the The Atchison Daily Globe and widely used until nowadays.
Do you see anything wrong?
Try to avoid to change something because doing something else could make things worse
I could have changed my answer, but I decided to leave well enough alone.
