turn pear-shaped

== English == === Verb === turn pear-shaped (third-person singular simple present turns pear-shaped, present participle turning pear-shaped, simple past and past participle turned pear-shaped) Synonym of go pear-shaped (“to go awry; to go wrong”). For more quotations using this term, see Citations:turn pear-shaped. === References === “turn pear-shaped”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.