croppernoun
uk/ˈkrɒp.ər/us/ˈkrɑː.pɚ/informalcome a cropper
to fail badly, or to fall from a horse or have a bad accident in a vehicle:
If outside buyers or suppliers lose faith, a company can come a cropper very quickly.
She came an almighty cropper when her back wheels hit an icy patch.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Failing and doing badly
- at-risk
- backbencher
- balls-up
- be running on empty idiom
- beat a dead horse idiom
- crack
- crash
- draw
- fail
- fall apart
- flunk out
- fray around/at the edges idiom
- fumble
- get off on the right/wrong foot idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- screw (sth) up
- sink like a stone idiom 1
- sink like a stone
- so much for sth idiom
- stagnate
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Falling and dropping
On the road: accidents involving vehicles