ЧТО ОЗНАЧАЕТ СЛОВО COME A CROPPER
Значение слова come a cropper в словаре английский языка
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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:
...
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.
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