English

Verb
come a cropper

1. archaic To fall headlong from a horse.
2. idiom UK to suffer some misfortune; to fail.

#:My efforts to correct matters came a cropper and everything fell apart.

Quotations
;suffer some misfortune
1922, w:Katherine Mansfield|Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay ¹
:You couldn't help feeling he'd be caught out one day, and then what an almighty cropper he'd come!

See also
neck and crop

Category:English verbs

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