10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COME A CROPPER»
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come a cropper in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
come a cropper and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
Patsy Adam-smith, TheAnzAcs, 1978 ▻ come a cropper to take a heavy fall; to go
wrong uk, 1374 This is the most familiar phrase based-on 'cropper' (a fall, 1858);
others are 'get a cropper' and 'fall a cropper'. • Bloke's got to help a girl where ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
Uncle Josh Perkins: A Comedy in Three Acts. Boston: Baker's Plays, 1939. To
come a cropper 1900 Song lyrics: The frock coat lost its charms and so the topper
came a cropper at the rataplan Clement, Frank A. "I Want to Be a Military Man.
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
I Come a Cropper in Genoa I Come a Cropper in Genoa I Come a Cropper in
Genoa I Come a Cropper in Genoa N GENOA, WE STAYED AT THE YOUTH
HOSTEL, A FINE OLD CASTLE-LIKE BUILDING ON THE EASTERN EDGE OF
THE ...
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An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions: Second Edition
Come a cropper Have a bad accident or meet with serious misfortune.* Come a
gutser Means the same as come a cropper. Come a purler Means the same as
come a cropper. Come across (1) Move from one group to another (e.g. 'he has ...
Ian Stuart-Hamilton, 2006
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Speaking of Animals:
A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
Lat. columba "dove"). Medieval Europeans thought that the cluster of petals on
the flower looked like a flock of (white) doves. ATWS; EWPO. Compare Palomino.
COME A CROPPER to come a cropper. To suffer a misfortune, failure, or defeat.
Robert Allen Palmatier, 1995
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Funny Things Can Happen on Your Way through the Bible, ...
I had no idea until, while composing this crhyme, I researched the phrase “come
a cropper,” that it had become so rare in recent usage, According to the web site
phrases.org,uk, “The phrase is first cited in Robert S. Surtees' Ask Mamma, 1858:
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r/ /"krA;.p/ noun informal come a cropper to fail badly, or to fall from a horse or
have a bad accident in a vehicle: Having reached the final, the British have come
a cropper against ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
COME THE OLD SOLDIER. 5. To attain to, achieve: from ca 1885: dial. and coll. 6
. To experience, suffer, as in come a cropper: this once coll usage is now S.E.
where the complement is S.E. 7. See COME IT. come, to *. c. of ca 1810–50, as in
...
Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson, 1973
Collude with Agree with one to do a secret, wrong act The cashier and the
accountant colluded with each other to cheat the establishment. Come a cropper
(collo) Have 2 fall. meet with failure All his expectations for the future cannot be
fulfilled ...
Prof. V.N. Sadasiva Rau, Sura College of Competition, 2004
Codswallop: Nonsense; lies. Come a cropper: Have an accident; fall down; fail
badly. Also 'croppa'. Come a gutser: Make a bad mistake; have an accident;
come a cropper (qv). Comer: Participant. Comeuppance: Just desserts;
retribution.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COME A CROPPER»
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come a cropper is used in the context of the following news items.
No quad bike helmet - is it worth the risk?
... but maybe the debate has put some doubt in your mind – what if this is the day you forget the bike is in reverse and you come a cropper? «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
Prasad Bhamre: Policy makers in Kazakhstan longingly look at India …
That the Indian efforts in that sector, spearheaded by OVL have come a cropper is as much testimony to OVL's ineptitude as it is to Kazakhstani ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
Cross selling fails, Future Generali now plans data analytics to take …
Past evidence showed that the insurer's sale of insurance through its parent Future Group owned retail outlets have come a cropper. «Economic Times, Jul 15»
Deadline for Food Act might be extended
Meanwhile, the Centre's plan to complete nationwide roll-out of the food security Act by September 2015 might come a cropper because as ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
Taint spreads, but BJP keeps silent
... in the Opposition ranks, as seen in the Lalit row, in the forthcoming monsoon session of Parliament from July 21 could come a cropper. «Calcutta Telegraph, Jul 15»
Dixons Carphone ties up with Sprint for 500 stores in the US
Three decades back, an attempt by Dixons to crack the notoriously difficult US market had come a cropper. The company acquired the Silo and ... «domain-B, Jul 15»
Jamaica dominate 100m sprint events
... the men's 3,000m steeplechase, only to come a cropper on the final hurdle to allow Jairus Kipchoge Birech past in a world leading 7 minutes, ... «Taipei Times, Jul 15»
Crucial week ahead for Land Bill
... the amendments, it could still come a cropper in the Rajya Sabha, where the numbers still remain stacked against the government on this Bill. «The Hindu, Jul 15»
Local strays head for Chennai, Bengaluru
With the stray dog menace on the rise, the attempt to bring it under control by promoting adoption has come a cropper in the city. Most citizens ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
Sleb Safari: Katy wants to move into a convent
BREAKING news from Hollywood where Katy Perry's plans to buy a former convent from the nuns who once lived there have come a cropper ... «the Irish News, Jul 15»
