Usually means: Fail suddenly and disastrously.
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  1. come a cropper: Merriam-Webster
  2. come a cropper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. come a cropper: Collins English Dictionary
  4. come a cropper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. come a cropper: Wiktionary
  6. come a cropper: Dictionary.com
  7. Cropper, Come a: The Word Detective
  8. come a cropper: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. Come a cropper: World Wide Words
  10. Come a cropper: Phrase Finder
  11. come a cropper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. come a cropper: Idioms

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  1. come a cropper: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (come a cropper)

▸ verb:  (originally) To fall headlong from a horse.
▸ verb:  (British, idiomatic) To suffer some accident or misfortune; to fail.

Similar:
crop, torple, precipitate, fall flat on one's face, eat it, plunge, fall on, wrap one's head around, ride down, cowp, more...

Opposite:
succeed, thrive, prosper, flourish

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Similar:
crop, torple, precipitate, fall flat on one's face, eat it, plunge, fall on, wrap one's head around, ride down, cowp, more...

Opposite:
succeed, thrive, prosper, flourish



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