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    flounder

    US /ˈflaʊndɚ/

    ・

    UK /ˈflaʊndə(r)/

    C1
    v.i.Intransitive VerbTo make clumsy or uncontrolled movements
    The baby started to walk, but began to flounder and fell

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    The Lengths We Go To Avoid Love

    06:18The Lengths We Go To Avoid Love
    • For the love-scared among us, we are constantly at work taking careful steps to ensure that any relationship we are in will flounder. We pick partners with an element of built-in obsolescence about them, some reason why in the end a relationship with them isn't going to be able to work out, people who just happen to be living on another continent or who are married to someone else or are impossibly distant to us in age. We beg for love from people who, as we know in our unconscious, are guaranteed not to want or be able to give it to us. We complain repeatedly that people we are involved with don't love us properly.

      For the love-scared among us, we are constantly at work taking careful steps to ensure that any relationship we are in will flounder. We pick partners with an element of built-in obsolescence about them, some reason why in the end a relationship with them isn't going to be able to work out, people who just happen to be living on another continent or who are married to someone else or are impossibly distant to us in age. We beg for love from people who, as we know in our unconscious, are guaranteed not to want or be able to give it to us. We complain repeatedly that people we are involved with don't love us properly.

    • For the love scared among us, we are constantly at work taking careful steps to ensure that any relationship we are in will flounder.

      For the love scared among us, we are constantly at work taking careful steps to ensure that any relationship we are in will flounder.

    B1

    SpongeBob Meets Flats the School Bully ? | SpongeBob

    06:12SpongeBob Meets Flats the School Bully ? | SpongeBob
    • We have a new student starting today, so let's all put on a happy face for Flats the Flounder.

      We have a new student starting today, so let's all put on a happy face for Flats the Flounder.

    • We have a new student starting today, so let's all put on a happy face for Flats the Flounder.

      We have a new student starting today, so let's all put on a happy face for Flats the Flounder.

    B1

    Film Theory: Is Dory FAKING? (Finding Dory)

    12:25Film Theory: Is Dory FAKING? (Finding Dory)
    • Shrrrrggghhh, I can't, I can't keep "FLOUNDER"ing

      Shrrrrggghhh, I can't, I can't keep "FLOUNDER"ing

    B2

    5 Ways To End a Conversation + A Bonus One

    07:285 Ways To End a Conversation + A Bonus One
    • So I, I if I'm trying to mess with someone a little bit, not the person I'm having a conversation with, like, maybe I just want to get out of that conversation and I see a buddy of mine walking by and I know they can handle themselves in a conversation, I'll be like, "Oh my gosh, have you met so-and-so?" and I'll literally grab my buddy and just drag him in and he's like and then I'll introduce them and then I'll be like, "Okay, so, uh, I'm going to go grab a drink or hit the bathroom," and then I just leave my buddy to kind of flounder,

      So I, I if I'm trying to mess with someone a little bit, not the person I'm having a conversation with, like, maybe I just want to get out of that conversation and I see a buddy of mine walking by and I know they can handle themselves in a conversation, I'll be like, "Oh my gosh, have you met so-and-so?" and I'll literally grab my buddy and just drag him in and he's like and then I'll introduce them and then I'll be like, "Okay, so, uh, I'm going to go grab a drink or hit the bathroom," and then I just leave my buddy to kind of flounder,

    • to kinda flounder and then I get a kick

      to kinda flounder and then I get a kick

    A2

    Which Disney Characters Would We Be?

    05:24Which Disney Characters Would We Be?
    • Zach could be like a flounder.

      Zach could be like a flounder.

    • Zack could be like a flounder, because flounders are always like, "I don't know." And I feel like Zack is very like, "I don't know." Yeah.

      Zack could be like a flounder, because flounders are always like, "I don't know." And I feel like Zack is very like, "I don't know." Yeah.

    A2

    Gordon SHUTS DOWN Bad Restaurants | BRAND NEW Season Kitchen Nightmares Compilation | Gordon Ramsay

    39:11Gordon SHUTS DOWN Bad Restaurants | BRAND NEW Season Kitchen Nightmares Compilation | Gordon Ramsay
    • That's the flounder.

      That's the flounder.

    • I suppose that's the, uh that's the flounder.

      I suppose that's the, uh that's the flounder.

    B1

    Why Elemental Bombed At The Box Office

    06:09Why Elemental Bombed At The Box Office
    • Disney-related fan websites noted that the company just didn't put much promotional muscle behind "Elemental," leaving it to flounder, much like Disney's winter release "Strange World." The result appears to be the worst-performing Pixar release since "A Bug's Life" in 1998, with a paltry $44.5 million worldwide opening weekend.

      Disney-related fan websites noted that the company just didn't put much promotional muscle behind "Elemental," leaving it to flounder, much like Disney's winter release "Strange World." The result appears to be the worst-performing Pixar release since "A Bug's Life" in 1998, with a paltry $44.5 million worldwide opening weekend.

    • leaving it to flounder, much like Disney's winter release "Strange World".

      leaving it to flounder, much like Disney's winter release "Strange World".

    B2

    Disney's Once Upon a Studio | Full Short Film

    08:46Disney's Once Upon a Studio | Full Short Film
    • -[Moana groans] -[Flounder grunts]

      -[Moana groans] -[Flounder grunts]

    B1

    Richard Dawkins - The Genius of Charles Darwin - Part 3: God Strikes Back [+Subs]

    48:14Richard Dawkins - The Genius of Charles Darwin - Part 3: God Strikes Back [+Subs]
    • I think they all flounder.

      I think they all flounder.

    • I think they all flounder.

      I think they all flounder.

    B1

    Tag Disney por Carlinha Lemos

    11:33Tag Disney por Carlinha Lemos
    • Flounder, hurry up!*

      Flounder, hurry up!*

    B1