But no one can say that a debate which has lasted until half-past five in the morning has fizzled out.
We made a feeble start in the schools with secondary technical schools, and it fizzled out.
It had a second go recently, but that, too, fizzled out.
They have fizzled out and, as has been suggested, the two colonels now are in comparative amity.
The rocket motor has fizzled out like a damp squib.
I thought that he was about to raise the flag of revolt against an aspect of the tax, but then the revolt fizzled out.
The story is one of a great beginning which to some extent fizzled out in later years.
Thereafter, it made loss after loss until it fizzled out a short while ago.