Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is go pear-shaped and its meaning is “go wrong, fail, go awry”.
Example Sentence: It feels to me that, with the arrival of Covid-19, and everything going with it, that everything else in our beautiful country has gone pear-shaped. It is as if everyone has lost the ability to think clearly, there is no logic to anything and commonsense has flown out of the door.
This phrase is present in Roodepoort Record article Why are their priorities so wrong? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: Roodepoort Record
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