go wrong
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Go astray, make a mistake. For example, We made a left turn and somehow went wrong from then on , or You won't go wrong if you follow the directions in the dress pattern . [c. 1300]
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Take to evil ways, become a criminal, as in As soon as he turned thirteen, Billy fell in with a gang and began to go wrong . [c. 1500]
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Fail, turn out badly, as in Everything about this party has gone wrong . [Late 1500s]
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Fail to work properly, as in The car starts fine, but as soon as you put it in gear, the transmission goes wrong . [Late 1800s]
Example Sentences
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Instead, an ambitious pan-European project has become a case study into some of what has gone wrong with the region’s defense push.
"It's so difficult to contain them when they're that confident and don't feel that anything is going to go wrong for them."
From BBC
She believes he was trying an internet challenge which went wrong, but has never been able to access his data to prove it.
From BBC
Below AFP Sport looks at what went wrong for England in Edinburgh:
From Barron's
At City Hall, both supporters and critics of Bass have been retracing recent events, looking for clues as to how things went wrong.
From Los Angeles Times
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