go pear-shaped



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.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Akihito[æki'hi:təu]
VincentVIN-sənt (English), ven-SAWN (French)English, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Slovak
Ibrahim-Arabic, Malay, Indonesian
Glukel-Yiddish
KasperKAHS-per (Polish, Swedish), KAHS-pər (Dutch)Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Radka-Czech, Bulgarian