He came a cropper.
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Tom passed three of his five exams, and came a cropper in two.
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But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’
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You're riding for a fall, Healey, you know that? There are hedges and ditches ahead and you are on course for an almighty cropper.
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