### Clue: Fail in game by inventor? Certainly (2,5,2)
### Answer: GO BELLY UP 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Fail
  GO(Japanese board game of strategy) **plus**(by) BELL(Alexander Graham, inventor of the telephone) + YUP(certainly,surely, as expressed by Gary Cooper in his many cowboy roles)., 
Answer: To fail,reach end of its life, like dead fishes do literally.