Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Paying
Paying adjective - Yielding a profit.
Both words in one sentence
- A Bug's Life: Hopper has the colony paying him tribute every year, threatening to wipe them out if the fail to provide an offering, and Flik tries standing up for them twice.
Source: Spark of the Rebellion -
Epic Fail: How else would you describe Ikuto forfeiting a game of shogi to Suzu because he has only the King remaining and Suzu wasn't even paying attention?
Source: Manga / Nagasarete Airantou -
Predictably, all four of them utterly fail to be stealthy when the time calls for it, though Shinpachi did manage to pass his training mission...by looking so boring that nobody paid bothered paying attention to him stealing a magazine.
Source: Highly Visible Ninja
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