| 单词 | to come a |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come a —— e. slang or colloquial. to come a ——: to fall heavily or badly; to suffer misfortune or failure. Chiefly in to come a cropper at cropper n.3 ΚΠ 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 133 Cropper, ‘to go a cropper’, or ‘to come a cropper’, i.e., to fail badly. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Colcher, a heavy fall, ‘He came a regular colcher’. 1902 R. C. Praed My Austral. Girlhood 48 Old Mooney on Seaforth, came a buster yesterday. 1963 N.Z. Truth 17 Sept. 48 The police seemed to have come a purler in trying to invoke the aid of doctors in tracing pregnant women. 1974 G. Mitchell Javelin for Jonah xii. 154 I like old Jimmy boy and I wouldn't want to see him come a mucker. 2005 Independent 5 Oct. 13/4 Moving north of the border they came a cropper with the law again outside Edinburgh. Mr Gough was sentenced to two weeks in jail. < as lemmas |
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