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turned pear-shaped

turned pear-shaped is the simple past and past participle of turn pear-shaped.

Meaning of turn pear-shaped

Verb

turn pear-shaped (third-person singular simple present turns pear-shaped, present participle turning pear-shaped, simple past and past participle turned pear-shaped)

  1. Synonym of go pear-shaped (“to go awry; to go wrong”).
    • With the heater going full blast, Sophie and I drive to the all-night garage, and for the price of a coffee I get her life story. Happy as a child, things turned pear-shaped as she entered her teens.2006 January 25, Bernard Hare, “A life in brown and white”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2014
    Synonyms:
    go pear-shaped

Questions about turned pear-shaped

What is turned pear-shaped the simple past and past participle of?
Turned pear-shaped is the simple past and past participle of turn pear-shaped.

Words near turned pear-shaped in the dictionary

  1. turned or burned
  2. turned or burnt
  3. turned out
  4. turned over
  5. turned over a new leaf
  6. turned pear-shaped
  7. turned period
  8. turned periods
  9. turned point
  10. turned points
  11. turned queen's evidence

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