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单词 cropper
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croppernoun

uk/ˈkrɒp.ər/us/ˈkrɑː.pɚ/informal
come 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
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