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TheShadow

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Hi, Can you say:

"If your dish failed, we can always order out"

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bhaisahab

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Hi, Can you say:

"If your dish failed, we can always order out"

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"If your dish failed, we could always order out"
"If your dish fails we can always order out"
 

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If my dish failed I would think my TV wasn't working.
 

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I have a feeling we can/would say "we can order in" as well as/instead of "we can order out". "We can order take-out" works too. In BrE, that's normally "we can get a takeaway".
 

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I don't think you would ever hear "failed" used in that context in AmE.
 

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I don't think you would ever hear "failed" used in that context in AmE.
This speaker of BrE would be unlikely to use it.
 

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About the only dish I can think of which is commonly referred to with "succeeded" or "failed" is a soufflé.
 
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