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"etymology_text": "From falling on ones gut, or belly.",
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"word": "come a cropper"
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"word": "come a smeller"
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{
"ref": "1964, Ron Helmer, Stag Party, page 82",
"text": "Slippery as a butcher's apron it is, and I comes a gutser twice before I gets down to the stag.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Anita Bell, Crystal Coffin, page 33",
"text": "You took off up Main Street past the church, jumped the gutter, two cars and a four-foot fence, and finally come a gutser in the gully below the cop station.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, A. Bertram Chandler, Ride the Star Winds",
"text": "“Come off it, skipper. There's nobody to miss us if this scow comes a gutser. We're expendable, even more so than the average Rim Runner officer. And that's saying plenty.”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Glyn Parry, Sad Boys",
"text": "Until he tripped again and came a gutser. This time he stayed down.",
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}
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"To do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face."
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"(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face."
],
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"ref": "1919, C. Hampton Thorp, A Handful of Ausseys, page 288",
"text": "Ole Fritz keeps on tryin' ter feel our possies at night with small patrols, an' they tried ter raid us two nights ago, but came a gutser, 'coz we hopped out an' met 'em, an' they put their 'ands up.",
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"ref": "1982, New Zealand Parliament House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 443, page 439",
"text": "The Government has come a gutser there, and it will come a gutser in the health area when it tries to put the user-pays principle in operation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Alan Ramsay, A Matter of Opinion, page 90",
"text": "Well, where you all come a gutser is, over here, we think we're born to rule YOU.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Art Collins, In The Outback",
"text": "Unless we come a gutser, we won't get near them.",
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"To fail miserably; to make a huge mistake; to fall flat on one's face."
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"(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To fail miserably; to make a huge mistake; to fall flat on one's face."
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"etymology_text": "From falling on ones gut, or belly.",
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"ref": "1964, Ron Helmer, Stag Party, page 82",
"text": "Slippery as a butcher's apron it is, and I comes a gutser twice before I gets down to the stag.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Anita Bell, Crystal Coffin, page 33",
"text": "You took off up Main Street past the church, jumped the gutter, two cars and a four-foot fence, and finally come a gutser in the gully below the cop station.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, A. Bertram Chandler, Ride the Star Winds",
"text": "“Come off it, skipper. There's nobody to miss us if this scow comes a gutser. We're expendable, even more so than the average Rim Runner officer. And that's saying plenty.”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Glyn Parry, Sad Boys",
"text": "Until he tripped again and came a gutser. This time he stayed down.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face."
],
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"belly flop"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face."
],
"tags": [
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"New-Zealand",
"slang"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1919, C. Hampton Thorp, A Handful of Ausseys, page 288",
"text": "Ole Fritz keeps on tryin' ter feel our possies at night with small patrols, an' they tried ter raid us two nights ago, but came a gutser, 'coz we hopped out an' met 'em, an' they put their 'ands up.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1982, New Zealand Parliament House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 443, page 439",
"text": "The Government has come a gutser there, and it will come a gutser in the health area when it tries to put the user-pays principle in operation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Alan Ramsay, A Matter of Opinion, page 90",
"text": "Well, where you all come a gutser is, over here, we think we're born to rule YOU.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Art Collins, In The Outback",
"text": "Unless we come a gutser, we won't get near them.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To fail miserably; to make a huge mistake; to fall flat on one's face."
],
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],
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],
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"(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To fail miserably; to make a huge mistake; to fall flat on one's face."
],
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"New-Zealand",
"slang"
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