go pear-shaped

(British & Australian informal)

if a plan goes pear-shaped, it fails We'd arranged to be in France that weekend but it all went pear-shaped.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Shema'yah	-	Biblical Hebrew
Melchol	-	Biblical Greek
Archibald	AHR-chə-bawld	Scottish, English
Nkosana	-	Southern African, Xhosa
Gulnora	-	Uzbek
Hildegard	HIL-de-gahrt (German)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Ancient Germanic