[WhiskeyPapa]

flunk out (vi): to be dismissed from a school or college for failure.

Patton had to repeat the first year. That's flunking.

Walt

[nolu chan]

flunk out (vi): to be dismissed from a school or college for failure.

Patton had to repeat the first year. That's flunking.

Walt

flunk (vi): to fail especially in an examination or course.

You are ever slowly catching on. That is flunking. That is not flunking out.

George Patton, Jr., did not flunk out of West Point. He was not dismissed from the institution.