| 释义 |
come ungluedinformal 1(Of plans or an enterprise) end in failure: it was only a matter of time before the whole operation came unglued...- We can't will the meal or the occasion to turn out well and often the best-designed plans wind up coming unglued through some miscue or disagreement.
- They had fallback plans and people to blame if anything came unglued.
- Then, things came unglued as they got away from the game plan and began to make errors.
2(Of a person) become confused or upset: ‘What was it about him that made her come unglued with just a single look?’...- After much discussion, and me on the verge of coming unglued, the original route was agreed upon.
- Humiliated, Pantani comes unglued and withdraws a few days later, and Armstrong pedals imperiously to his second Tour win.
- I like to see them come unglued, and I like to see how the characters in the novels cope with this problem.
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