Meaning of come unstuck | Babel Free

Definitions

To get into trouble, to have an accident or mishap, to go off the rails.

British, idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

““Well, if you must know⟳,” he said, “she's broken the engagement.” This didn't get⟳ us any farther. We had assumed as much. You don't go calling people rats if love⟳ still lingers. “But it's only an hour or so,” I said, “since I left her outside a hostelry called the ‘Fox and Goose’, and she had just been giving you a rave notice⟳. What came unstuck? What did you do to the girl?””

“It is true that when political philosophers have⟳ tried to intervene directly in political life, they have⟳ usually come⟳ unstuck.”

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