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Pear-shaped
"Pear-shaped" in a Sentence (13 examples)
My plans for the weekend went pear-shaped when my car broke down on Saturday morning.
She has pear-shaped breasts.
That could have gone pear-shaped.
That could've gone pear-shaped.
"That'll work!" – "No, Tom, believe me: That'll go pear-shaped!"
Whatever he tries, it all goes pear-shaped.
Things went totally pear-shaped.
It's guaranteed to go pear-shaped.
It was the star lot of Sotheby's jewelry auction at its annual spring sales in Hong Kong: a flawless, pear-shaped, 72-carat diamond, as big as a walnut.
Single egg laid directly on ledge, pear-shaped to prevent rolling off[.]
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pear-shaped obesity versus apple-shaped obesity
Just as one should take sitting-up exercises every day to keep one's figure from going pear-shaped in the hips, one should spend at least a little time, even if it is only very little, sloughing off mental flabbiness by thinking, studying or just reading something that requires an exercising effort of the mind to understand, memorise or digest.
Even at BMIs above 30, where obesity begins, men and women whose waist-to-hip ratio identified them as more pear-shaped were less likely to die -- of any cause and of cardiovascular causes -- than those with similar BMIs who were apple-shaped.
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