land the plane (English, verb)
expansion: land the plane (third-person singular simple present lands the plane, present participle landing the plane, simple past and past participle landed the plane)
Senses:
glosses: To abort an unsuccessful enterprise, especially an unsuccessful political campaign.
tags: idiomatic
informal
Forms:
form: lands the plane
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: landing the plane
tags: participle
present
form: landed the plane
tags: participle
past
form: landed the plane
tags: past