"go over like a lead balloon" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Presumably from go over (“to be received”), used as if literally (“to travel above”): a lead balloon would not travel well through the air.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes over like a lead balloon",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going over like a lead balloon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went over like a lead balloon",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone over like a lead balloon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> over like a lead balloon"
      },
      "expansion": "go over like a lead balloon (third-person singular simple present goes over like a lead balloon, present participle going over like a lead balloon, simple past went over like a lead balloon, past participle gone over like a lead balloon)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fail to gain acceptance: to be received poorly."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_over_like_a_lead_balloon-en-verb-e1XZwSof",
      "links": [
        [
          "acceptance",
          "acceptance"
        ],
        [
          "receive",
          "receive"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) To fail to gain acceptance: to be received poorly."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "fly with leaden wings"
        },
        {
          "word": "sink like a stone"
        },
        {
          "word": "like a fart in church"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "go down like a cup of cold sick"
        },
        {
          "word": "go down like a lead balloon"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "note": "пролете́ть, как фане́ра над Пари́жем (proletétʹ, kak fanéra nad Parížem, literally “to fly like plywood over Paris”)",
          "sense": "to fail"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go over like a lead balloon"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Presumably from go over (“to be received”), used as if literally (“to travel above”): a lead balloon would not travel well through the air.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes over like a lead balloon",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going over like a lead balloon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went over like a lead balloon",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone over like a lead balloon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> over like a lead balloon"
      },
      "expansion": "go over like a lead balloon (third-person singular simple present goes over like a lead balloon, present participle going over like a lead balloon, simple past went over like a lead balloon, past participle gone over like a lead balloon)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fly with leaden wings"
    },
    {
      "word": "sink like a stone"
    },
    {
      "word": "like a fart in church"
    }
  ],
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fail to gain acceptance: to be received poorly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "acceptance",
          "acceptance"
        ],
        [
          "receive",
          "receive"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) To fail to gain acceptance: to be received poorly."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "go down like a cup of cold sick"
    },
    {
      "word": "go down like a lead balloon"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "пролете́ть, как фане́ра над Пари́жем (proletétʹ, kak fanéra nad Parížem, literally “to fly like plywood over Paris”)",
      "sense": "to fail"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go over like a lead balloon"
}