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went pear-shaped

vb. (en-simple past of: go pear-shaped)

Usage examples of "went pear-shaped".

And Siobhan had projected gloomily that if things went pear-shaped--if civilization fell apart despite the shield's protection--the hibernacula would most likely serve the starving survivors as cellars of thawing meat.

If this insertion went pear-shaped, as it probably would, then he could very well be on the run by morning.