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go pear-shaped
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(UK) To go wrong; to go awry.
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throw off
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(idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses. (idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew. The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results. |
