Idiom
go wrong
Meaning
To worsen; to fail or go amiss; to have a bad outcome.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I followed the recipe, but something went wrong.”
“Everything seemed fine until the computer crashed, and then everything went wrong at once.”
“Despite their meticulous planning, the project went wrong when the primary investor withdrew support at the eleventh hour.”
Examples
simple
“I followed the recipe, but something went wrong.”
contextual
“Everything seemed fine until the computer crashed, and then everything went wrong at once.”
complex
“Despite their meticulous planning, the project went wrong when the primary investor withdrew support at the eleventh hour.”
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