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Go wrong   /goʊ rɔŋ/   Listen
Go wrong

verb
1.
Be unsuccessful.  Synonyms: fail, miscarry.  "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"  Antonym: succeed.






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"Go wrong" Quotes from Famous Books



... it that giveth not rise to ailments?' (A.) 'That which is not eaten but after hunger, and when it is eaten, the ribs are not filled with it, even as saith Galen the physician, "Whoso will take in food, let him go slowly and he shall not go wrong." To end with the saying of the Prophet, (whom God bless and preserve,) "The stomach is the home of disease, and abstinence is the beginning[FN310] of cure, [FN311] for the origin of every disease is indigestion, that ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume IV • Anonymous

... lay and listened as the debate went back and forth, Rhes ordering it and keeping it going. Difficulties were raised and eliminated. No one could find a basic fault with the plan. There were plenty of flaws in it, things that might go wrong, but Jason didn't mention them. These people wanted his idea to work and they were ...
— Deathworld • Harry Harrison

... get out of order; garrison like this don't. A man or two may go wrong, but there is always more to take their places. We did our best, and was very proud of it, sir; but it's one thing to have three trained soldiers for your garrison and to make it stronger out of such men as you can get together, and another thing to march in as many as you can make ...
— The Young Castellan - A Tale of the English Civil War • George Manville Fenn

... every house-post has a spirit) would detach its long body from the timber, and wander about the rooms, head-downwards, making faces at people. Nor was this all. A Sakasa-bashira knew how to make all the affairs of a household go wrong,—how to foment domestic quarrels,—how to contrive misfortune for each of the family and the servants,—how to render existence almost insupportable until such time as the carpenter's blunder should ...
— The Romance of the Milky Way - And Other Studies & Stories • Lafcadio Hearn

... services had entitled him to the first place in his country's love and destined for him the fairest page in the volume of faithful history, I ask so much confidence only as may give firmness and effect to the legal administration of your affairs. I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various


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