Meaning of come a gutser | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face.
   Australia, New-Zealand, slang
2. To fail miserably; to make a huge mistake; to fall flat on one's face.
   Australia, New-Zealand, slang

Examples

“Slippery as a butcher's apron it is, and I comes a gutser twice before I gets down to the stag.”

“You took off up Main Street past the church, jumped the gutter, two cars and a four-foot fence, and finally come a gutser in the gully below the cop station.”

““Come off it, skipper. There's nobody to miss us if this scow comes a gutser. We're expendable, even more so than the average Rim Runner officer. And that's saying plenty.””

“Until he tripped again and came a gutser. This time he stayed down.”

“Ole Fritz keeps on tryin' ter feel our possies at night with small patrols, an' they tried ter raid us two nights ago, but came a gutser, 'coz we hopped out an' met 'em, an' they put their 'ands up.”

“The Government has come a gutser there, and it will come a gutser in the health area when it tries to put the user-pays principle in operation.”

“Well, where you all come a gutser is, over here, we think we're born to rule YOU.”

“Unless we come a gutser, we won't get near them.”

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