When, usualy a joke or another comment (but could also apply to a film or play etc), is either not appreciated, said when not
appropriate or just plain
not funny and get's either a cold response or
no response at all. Similar to a lead balloon. It can be described as "Going down like a cup of cold sick".
When George told his joke, about The
Englishman, the Irishman and
the Scotsman, in which the Irishman appears stupid, at an Irish
social club, it went down like a cup of cold sick.