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Pear-shaped.
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When something goes wrong, why is it described as going 'pear-shaped?'
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Click http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pea2.htm
for the answer.
Click http://alt-usage-english.org/pear_shaped.html
for a further web-page on the matter, which repeats the aerobatics idea. There, too, I have to say I quite like the idea that any shape - intended to be a perfect circle - that 'flops' towards peardom expresses the concept of something having gone all wrong.
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