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go wrong

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go wrong
1. to make a mistake or a bad decision. With so many great players to choose from, there was no way I could go wrong. If you follow the signs to the park, you can't go wrong. You can't go wrong with the Italian restaurants in this neighborhood.
2. to experience problems or have a bad result. I don't know what I would have done if anything had gone wrong. They tried to find out what went wrong with the science experiment.
3. to start to behave very badly. He was a kid who went wrong, although he came from a very good family. Has something gone wrong with nature?
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He said a few words to Prince Andrew and Chernyshev about the present war, with the air of a man who knows beforehand that all will go wrong, and who is not displeased that it should be so.
My thoughts are us-u-al-ly cor-rect, but it is Smith & Tin-ker's fault if they some-times go wrong or do not work prop-er-ly.
But presently something seemed to go wrong with the pirates; they stopped laughing and cracking jokes; they looked puzzled; something was making them uneasy.
 
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