ALL meanings of come a cropper
come a crop·per
C c - phrase come a cropper If you say that someone has come a cropper, you mean that they have had an unexpected and embarrassing failure. 3
- noun come a cropper to fall heavily 3
- noun come a cropper to fail completely 3
- noun come a cropper to fall heavily or headlong 3
- noun come a cropper to come to ruin; fail 3
- noun come a cropper a person who raises a crop. 1
- noun come a cropper a person who cultivates land for its owner in return for part of the crop; sharecropper. 1
- noun come a cropper a plant that furnishes a crop. 1
- noun come a cropper a cloth-shearing machine. 1
- idioms come a cropper come a cropper, Informal. to fail; be struck by some misfortune: His big deal came a cropper. to fall headlong, especially from a horse. 1
- verbal expression come a cropper suffer defeat, misfortune 1
- verbal expression come a cropper fall badly 1
- noun come a cropper a person or thing that crops. 1
- verb come a cropper (archaic) To fall headlong from a horse. 0
- verb come a cropper (Idiomatic) (Britain) To suffer some misfortune; to fail. 0