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  • adjective Alternative spelling of pear-shaped.

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Examples

  • His analysis of where it all went pearshaped is similar to that of Norman Dennis.

    January 30, 2005 Laban 2005

  • His analysis of where it all went pearshaped is similar to that of Norman Dennis.

    Archive 2005-01-30 Laban 2005

  • His analysis of where it all went pearshaped is similar to that of Norman Dennis.

    A Policy Which Is Deeply Harmful to the Welfare of Very Young Children Laban 2005

  • Life went pearshaped it's really got to stop doing that - I'll have some words with it, just as soon as I've had a nap and I never got it published.

    gillpolack: A couple of years ago I wrote an article gillpolack 2009

  • Life went pearshaped it's really got to stop doing that - I'll have some words with it, just as soon as I've had a nap and I never got it published.

    Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009

  • Thankfully none of the paranoid things I was doing my level best to avoid thinking, and managed to do so right up until work went pearshaped this afternoon.

    February 26th, 2007 mynxii 2007

  • Back to work - lots to get done before I can leave today, including a possibly problematic meeting, which may involve the probability of me getting L4 higher duties due to the changing pearshaped-ness of the consumer migration * smug grin*

    November 6th, 2006 mynxii 2006

  • Id say thats where it went pearshaped; he chose the wrong ones, so he had to get rid of them!

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • Id say thats where it went pearshaped; he chose the wrong ones, so he had to get rid of them!

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • Much of the crap that Jacqui Smith was spouting in the aftermath of the Damien Green affair on operational Police freedom was because they were aware that the De Menezes case was going to go pearshaped for the Government which after all authorised Operation Kratos shoot to kill policyand they wanted to create as much distance between them and theGovernment as possible.

    Jean Charles de Menezes: judicial review to follow Gandhi 2008

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