Historical clue formulations

• Fell down hard, in slang — 2025-11-19
• Face-planted — 2024-08-11
• Took a dive — 2023-12-19
• Crashed and burned — 2023-08-20
• Face-planted — 2022-04-10
• Wiped out — 2022-03-02
• Wiped out — 2022-01-15
• Failed epically — 2021-10-25
• Suffered a wipeout — 2021-07-28
• Had quite a trip? — 2021-06-25
• Wiped out — 2021-02-21
• Wiped out — 2021-01-28
• Faceplanted, say — 2020-05-21
• Fell on one's face big-time — 2020-04-22
• Face-planted — 2020-01-12
• Face-planted — 2019-11-09
• Wiped out — 2019-08-10
• Wiped out, as while skateboarding — 2018-09-04
• Wiped out — 2018-06-22
• Face-planted — 2018-02-08
• Wiped out big-time — 2017-10-03
• Wiped out — 2017-08-27
• Completely wiped out — 2017-03-24
• Face-planted — 2017-02-25
• Lost big — 2017-01-29
• Crashed ignominiously — 2016-03-09
• Bit the dust — 2015-03-14
• Swallowed a loss — 2014-11-13
• Swallowed a loss — 2014-08-11
• Suffered a face-plant — 2014-05-30
• Failed in a big way — 2014-03-15
• Failed in a big way — 2013-10-22
• Bit the bullet, say — 2012-12-27
• Bit the dust — 2012-06-30
• Suffered ignominious failure, in slang — 2012-02-27
• Failed spectacularly — 2011-02-03
• Absorbed the loss — 2010-03-02
• Took the loss — 2008-10-22
• Wiped out, slangily — 2008-09-19
• Took the loss — 2006-11-24
• Suffered defeat, slangily — 2005-11-28