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
Seble	-	Eastern African, Amharic
DubhÁN	-	Irish
Mykyta	-	Ukrainian
Nerida	-	Indigenous Australian
Ghalib	-	Arabic
Hamlet	HAM-lət (English)	Literature, Armenian