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go_pear-shaped
go pear-shaped
See also: go pear shaped and go pearshaped
English
Verb
go pear-shaped (third-person singular simple present goes pear-shaped, present participle going pear-shaped, simple past went pear-shaped, past participle gone pear-shaped)
- (Britain, New Zealand, idiomatic) To go wrong; to go awry.