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单词 gang agley
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gang agley

(Of a plan) go wrong.The best laid plans, I discovered, can indeed gang agley, as swiftly as a mouse's existence is ended by a harvester....
  • But that wrecked show-trial wasn't the only media scheme that ganged agley in November 2005.
  • I should have expected that plan to gang agley.
1786: from Robert Burns's ‘The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley’ (Poems and Songs)
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