cropper
Example Sentences
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Reading the first few sentences of your letter, one thing was obvious: You and your sister would come a cropper on the subject of the fair market value of this house.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 19, 2026
And countless analyses have described how much the stock market’s advance owes to the AI-driven gains of the technology megacap names, and how much it will hurt if it comes a cropper.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
I have six design apps on my phone, four GIF converters, three color-correction tools, a resizing app, a video cropper, photo filters, fonts, logos, and on and on.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2018
"Where we come a cropper is often with music - we don't share the same tastes in music - and films and things like that."
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2018
A flying leg kicked my shin but I got past them without coming a cropper.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
