Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

come unstuck

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English

Syllables: come un-stuck
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To get into trouble, to have an accident or mishap, to go off the rails.

British usage

Example Sentences

"“Well, if you must know,” he said, “she's broken the engagement.” This didn't get us any farther. We had assumed as much. You don't go calling people rats if love still lingers. “But it's only an hour or so,” I said, “since I left her outside a hostelry called the ‘Fox and Goose’, and she had just been giving you a rave notice. What came unstuck? What did you do to the girl?”"
"It is true that when political philosophers have tried to intervene directly in political life, they have usually come unstuck."

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

comes unstuck (present, singular) coming unstuck (participle, present) came unstuck (past)

Synonyms

come undone

Questions

What does come unstuck mean?: To get into trouble, to have an accident or mishap, to go off the rails.

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