When It All Goes Pear Shaped?

To go pear-shaped means to go wrong, to fail miserably, to go awry in a terrible fashion. To go pear-shaped may describe a situation in which finances suffer a sudden and catastrophic reversal, or a personal relationship takes a sudden and calamitous turn. The origin of the expression to go pear-shaped is in dispute.

What does it mean when everything goes pear-shaped?

It describes a situation that has gone awry, perhaps horribly so. A failed bank robbery, for example, could be said to have "gone pear-shaped". The origin for this use of the term is in dispute.

What does pear-shaped mean in British slang?

UK informal. If a plan goes pear-shaped, it fails: We'd planned to go away for the weekend, but it all went pear-shaped. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Failing and doing badly.