| 单词 | to come a cropper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come (fall, get) a cropper A heavy fall; usually in to come (fall, get) a cropper: often figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief misfareOE miswendOE misferec1275 misspeeda1387 miscarryc1387 mischieve?a1400 to catch copper1530 to lose one's seatc1540 mischief1598 to bu(r)st one's boiler1824 to come to grief1850 to come (also go) a mucker1851 to come (fall, get) a cropper1858 mucker1862 to go or be up the flume1865 to come undone1899 to play smash1903 to come to a sticky end1904 to come unstuck1911 society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > fall off wendc1300 flit1430 unhorse1583 to be floored1826 to come (fall, get) a cropper1858 to come (also have) a buster1874 to come off1874 volunteer1890 to take a toss1917 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > falling down or from erect position (animates) > severe fall breakneck1563 plumper1810 purl1825 mucker1851 cropper1858 burster1863 smasher1875 crumpler1883 smeller1923 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > fall down or from erect position > specifically of person or animal to light lowc1225 wendc1300 to seek to the earth or groundc1330 tumblea1375 stretchc1400 to take a fall1413 to blush to the eartha1500 to come down1603 to go to grassa1640 to be floored1826 to take a spilla1845 to come (fall, get) a cropper1858 to hunt grass1872 to come (also have) a buster1874 to hit the deck1954 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma liii. 244 [He] rode at an impracticable fence, and got a cropper for his pains. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 133 Cropper, ‘to go a cropper’, or ‘to come a cropper’, i.e., to fail badly. 1875 A. Trollope Way we live Now I. xxxviii. 241 He would ‘be coming a cropper rather,’ were he to marry Melmotte's daughter for her money, and then find that she had got none. 1877 H. A. Leveson Sport Many Lands 464 My horse put his foot in a hole and came down a cropper. 1951 T. Rattigan Who is Sylvia? i. 230 We bachelors welcome competition from married men. We so much enjoy watching them come the inevitable cropper. 1963 Times 30 Jan. 1/7 I came a proper cropper, dearie, all black and blue I was. < as lemmas |
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