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It goes pear shaped. British saying, where does it derive from?
And what 's actually insinuated? Something went pear shaped.
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- *~STEVIE~* *~B~*Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Trt this link. Hope it helps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pear_shaped
- Anonymous5 years ago
New one?! It's been around for ages in Britain. There are many theories on how this phrase came into being, but there is no definitive explaination. One theory is that it came from Royal Air Force slang, when stunt pilots practiced lopp-the-loops. If it went wrong, the loop would take the shape of a pear, thus things go wrong, go 'pear- shaped.' It could also be linked to the fact that a pear-shaped figure is undesirable.
- Dee JLv 51 decade ago
It's used in the same way I thing as "belly up" meaning not good. I don't know where the pear-shaped notion comes from but belly-up means that something is floating, dead, belly up.
