come unstuckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

come unstuck (三人称単数 現在形 comes unstuck, 現在分詞 coming unstuck, 過去形 came unstuck, 過去分詞 come unstuck)

1. (idiomatic, Britain) To get into trouble, to have an accident or mishap, to go off the rails.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     “Well, if you must know,” he said, “she's broken the engagement.” This didn't get us any farther. We had assumed as much. You don't go calling people rats if love still lingers. “But it's only an hour or so,” I said, “since I left her outside a hostelry called the ‘Fox and Goose’, and she had just been giving you a rave notice. What came unstuck? What did you do to the girl?”