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come a cropper

verb

Etymology

Possibly from the phrase neck and crop, in which crop may refer to the backside of a horse.

Definitions

  1. To fall headlong from a horse.

  2. To suffer some accident or misfortune

    To suffer some accident or misfortune; to fail.

    • She came a cropper on the stairs and broke her leg.
    • I should feel certain that I should come a cropper, but still I'd try it. As you say, a fellow should try.
    • You couldn't help feeling he'd be caught out one day, and then what an almighty cropper he'd come!

  3. To die.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA