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
They both ended up in hospital after coming a cropper in the parents' race.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2023
They called themselves “Luddites”, a whimsical reference to a folktale about a young cropper who, when beaten by his master, retaliated by destroying his frame.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2019
A flying leg kicked my shin but I got past them without coming a cropper.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
