>> Felling flat?

"Falling flat". A "flat" fall is when you fall and land flat ("ravno"?) like a pancake on your stomach.

Something can also fall flat when you throw it and the person who is supposed to catch it doesn't. Instead it falls on the ground.

When a joke "falls flat" because it is too far-fetched, then the funny point was too far away for the other person grab and therefore it "falls to the ground" so to speak..

>> Far-fetched

Far-fetched, literally speaking, means that something is hard to reach. "Fetch" is a typically British expression that means "get" something. "Far" means, well.. that it is far away. For example when you reach for something in the kitchen and you have to grab a chair and stand on it in order to reach (or fetch) the object.

Far-fetched is mostly used about abstract concepts. For example an idea, a solution, a story (say.. about ghosts visiting), or a joke.

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