come a gutser

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To do a belly flop

   To do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face.

   • Slippery as a butcher's apron it is, and I comes a gutser twice before I gets down to the stag.
   • You took off up Main Street past the church, jumped the gutter, two cars and a four-foot fence, and finally come a gutser in the gully below the cop station.
   • “Come off it, skipper. There's nobody to miss us if this scow comes a gutser. We're expendable, even more so than the average Rim Runner officer. And that's saying plenty.”
2. 2

   To fail miserably

   To fail miserably; to make a huge mistake; to fall flat on one's face.

   • Ole Fritz keeps on tryin' ter feel our possies at night with small patrols, an' they tried ter raid us two nights ago, but came a gutser, 'coz we hopped out an' met 'em, an' they put their 'ands up.
   • The Government has come a gutser there, and it will come a gutser in the health area when it tries to put the user-pays principle in operation.
   • Well, where you all come a gutser is, over here, we think we're born to rule YOU.

The neighborhood

• neighborcome a cropper
• neighborcome a smeller