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coming a cropperphrasepresent participle of come a cropper to be unsuccessfulTo her disappointment, her plan came a cropper. bombing, collapsing, cratering, failing, flaming out, flopping, flunking, folding, foundering, missing, striking out, tanking, washing out floundering, strugglingdeclining, sinking, skidding, slipping, slumping, waningcrashing, crumbling, miscarrying, misfiringgoing underimploding, self-destructing coming to grief, coming up empty, dying on the vine, falling flat, falling on one's face, falling short, laying an egg clicking, coming off, delivering, going, going over, panning out, succeeding, working out cooking, flourishing, prospering, thrivingprevailing, triumphing, winning to go wrongHe tried to scale the fence but came a cropper. miscarrying, misfiring missingbreaking down, busting, conking (out), crashing, dying, failing, foundering, stallingbombing, fizzling, flaming out, flopping, flunking, folding, washing outfloundering, strugglingdeclining, skidding, slipping, slumping, tanking, waning coming to grief, falling flat, falling short prevailing, succeedingflourishing, prospering, thriving |