What does go pear shaped mean?

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go pear shaped

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English

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goes pear shaped (present, singular) going pear shaped (participle, present) went pear shaped (past) gone pear shaped (participle, past)

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