do well
Children from these backgrounds tend to do badly in examinations.
The party did badly in this year's local and national elections.
The clothing division has done badly when compared with the cosmetics division.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Failing and doing badly
abjectly
at-risk
backbencher
balls (something) up
be on your beam endsidiom
blow (someone/something) up
bomb
egg
flog a dead horseidiom
flop
flub
flunk out
founder
fray around/at the edgesidiom
mess
running on emptyidiom
sclerotic
screw
screw (something) up
sign someone's death warrant