flounder

Object

• fishing: Flounder fishing upriver can be fantastic at certain times of the year.
• ship: The game roars on the television like a floundering ship.
• attempt: This attempt floundered in bad weather and the following year the Harriers once again set out from Edale with renewed determination.
• economy: With a floundering economy, Cairo currently needs all the financial support it can find.
• deal: Kevin Howe ( MG Rover chief executive, pictured right ) certainly hoped so, but in the end, the deal floundered.
• eel: Flounder, eel and the occasional school bass are caught with the odd mullet during the summer.

Converse of object

catch: A flounder caught from the Thames at Erith Pier All highly recommended fisheries!

Preposition: at

bottom: Italy floundered at the bottom of a global survey of citizens ' economic outlook.

Adjective complement

due: Sports initiatives for young people in the community have sometimes floundered due to the lack of suitable volunteers to help run the projects.

Modifying Another Word

• helplessly: He is like a bird with a broken wing, whose instincts prompt it to fly while it flounders helplessly on the ground.
• about: This saves you floundering about in the dark, miles from the bothy, thinking it is just around the bend.
• still: However, other issues are still floundering on the margins of public debate - or worse.
• left: We're left floundering in the shallows of literary fiction.
• often: From past experience the first part never poses any problems but people often flounder when it comes to the second.
• officially: Now officially floundering he explained the l'influence de la.

Followed by an intransitive particle

around: Rather than flounder around in the juicy patches again I decided to find another way back via forest tracks to the west.

Preposition: in

• sea: And a few days later, floundering in a sea of crashing hormones, Angela heard herself say ' I'm sorry.
• dark: Without her extensive research I would still be floundering in the dark.
• water: Suddenly you see a man floundering in the water.
• face: Such floundering in the face of common sense is expected of whichever political party is in charge.