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go wrong
verb as in err
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verb as in fail
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- back wrong horse
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- fall flat
- fall short
- fall through
- go astray
- go down
- go down swinging
- go downhill
- go up in smoke
- hit bottom
- hit the skids
- lose control
- lose out
- lose status
- meet with disaster
- miss the boat
- play into
- run aground
- turn out badly
verb as in misbehave
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verb as in miscalculate
verb as in miscarry
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- back wrong horse
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- break down
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- fall flat
- fall short
- go astray
- go down
- go down swinging
- go downhill
- go up in smoke
- hit bottom
- hit the skids
- lose control
- lose out
- lose status
- meet with disaster
- miss fire
- miss the boat
- miss the mark
- play into
- run aground
- turn out badly
verb as in misestimate
verb as in misfire
verb as in misreckon
verb as in slip
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She added: “This is essential for us to understand and treat disease, cells are the basic unit of life, if things go wrong, they go wrong with our cells.”
“It was a simple idea of, ‘What if Wallace invents a smart gnome, a robot gnome, to help Gromit in the garden, and things inevitably go wrong?’
"They looked at every single thing that went wrong that day, including the way the calls were handled and retrained staff," she said.
The theme of Christmas gone wrong was highly relatable to Swiss director Simon Otto, who has previously worked as an animator on How to Train Your Dragon and Enchanted.
“So they make it very difficult to get into the diagnostic systems of these devices to find out what's going wrong.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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