"We're not going to make it" - in my days as a young and naive hot-air balloon driver, flying a passenger ride. What I meant was that we weren't going to be able to land in the field we were approaching (wind shift / bales in the way etc) so we would have to find somewhere else. The pax, however, had seen too many Airplane movies .... the look on their faces ...
Mind you, when we did land (in the same field) they thought I was a hero who had saved them from a near-death experience!