Usually means: Plan fails, becomes disorganized mess.
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  1. go pear-shaped: Merriam-Webster
  2. go pear-shaped, go pear-shaped: Collins English Dictionary
  3. go pear-shaped: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. go pear-shaped, go pear shaped: Wiktionary
  5. go pear shaped: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. go pear-shaped: Idioms

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  1. go pear shaped: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Go pear shaped)

▸ verb:  Alternative form of go pear-shaped [(intransitive, especially UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, idiomatic) To go awry; to go wrong.]

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go pearshaped, gawm, sticky beak, sticky-beak, fiz-gig, pretzelise, pouff, gnarr, buwang, paich, more...



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