Despite some electoral successes, these efforts have largely come a cropper, especially with the defeat of Mitt Romney in 2012.
There is bound to come a cropper somewhere––usually where you least expect it.
A horseman had come a cropper a little distance down the lane.
He'll be redheaded if he knows I am to blame for his coming a cropper.
Our favourite of all, was a large handsome pouter or cropper.
Yes, he could be sure of that; I had come one cropper that day, and it was enough.
There would be no second chance if you came a cropper the first time.
But as long as I had to come a cropper, why, I'm glad it was for no one less wonderful than you.
Once he had had great expectations, but alas!dad had just come a cropper.
Stella nodded, "I came a cropper over Marian," Julian explained.
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