come a cropper
come a cropper
fall heavily
suffer a defeat or disaster - informal
Sense (fall heavily) appears to have originated in mid 19th-century hunting jargon and possibly came from the phrase neck and crop meaning bodily or completely.
1980 - Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus – He had seen how people came a cropper by giving way to impulse.
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