flunk out phrasal verbphr v informal especially American EnglishAmE SELEAVE A SCHOOL OR COLLEGEto be forced to leave a school or college because your work is not good enough 〔因学业不好而〕被迫退学 of Ben flunked out of college. 本只得从大学退学。
flunk out• You either pass and get your degree or flunk out.• It was extremely humiliating to flunk out of law school like that.
flunk of• She found out when I flunked out of college.• It was, of course, extremely humiliating to flunk out of law school.• Leo flunked out of Yale in his junior year.
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