Usually means: Lose momentum or intensity gradually.
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  1. go off the boil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  2. go off the boil: Wiktionary
  3. go off the boil: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. go off the boil: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (go off the boil)

verb:  (UK, Australia) To cease to boil when heat is no longer applied.
verb:  (idiomatic, UK, Australia) To lose interest; to pall.
verb:  (idiomatic, UK, Australia) To become of diminished intensity or urgency.
verb:  (idiomatic, UK, Australia) To become less successful.

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