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turns pear-shaped

turns pear-shaped is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 turns pear-shaped

What is turns pear-shaped the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Turns pear-shaped is the third-person singular simple present indicative of turn pear-shaped.

Words near turns pear-shaped in the dictionary

  1. turns one's world upside down
  2. turns or burns
  3. turns out
  4. turns over
  5. turns over a new leaf
  6. turns pear-shaped
  7. turns queen's evidence
  8. turns round
  9. turns rusty
  10. turns someone's crank
  11. turns someone's head

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