Crossword clues for come a cropper
come a cropper
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context archaic English) To fall headlong from a horse. 2 (context British idiomatic English) To suffer some misfortune; to fail.
Usage examples of "come a cropper".
If the Kaleen had a mind to check us out, I was sure he would be met with sufficient interference to come a cropper—.
In fact, to put it bluntly, she's come a cropper of some kind, and has got the wind up about it.
It was a humorous story, which poked fun at the nabob of merchandising who had come a cropper.
Before long the house developed a reputation as a place where you could reliably expect to come a cropper.
Earlier versions of this condensing-nebula origin of the Solar system, some dating back to 1755, had come a cropper over the question of angular momentum (which is a measure of all the turning motions such as rotation about an axis and revolution about a center of gravity).
He admits that he's been in business for himself twice and come a cropper, once when he tried to open a motor-repair shop on his own and once with a partner in breeding turkey chicks.
It's better to tumble off the bottom rung of a ladder than to come a cropper from the top.