Go Wrong

Definition: Go Wrong

Go Wrong

Verb

1. Be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Go Wrong

Failure

Go amiss, go wrong, go cross, go hard with, go on a wrong tack; go on ill, come off ill, turn out ill, work ill; take a wrong term, take an ugly term; take an ugly turn, take a turn for the worse.

Crosswords: Go Wrong

The operation was a complete success, but that's where everything started to go wrong. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)

Should anything go wrong, cyanide. (Soldaat van Oranje; writing credit: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema; Kees Holierhoek)

Until they go wrong. (From Russia with Love; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Johanna Harwood)

That means, if anything should go wrong with Angelus, you're gonna have to kill me. (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

What can go wrong when the airline's top mechanic is sitting in the seat right next to us? (Falling from the Sky: Flight 174; writing credit: William Hoffer; Marilyn Hoffer)

With a thought like that you can't go wrong (Girls of Summer; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Things go wrong, they always do (She drives me crazy; performing artist: Fine Young Cannibals)

A magic feeling where nothing can go wrong (Flipper Twist; performing artist: Flipper)

But thinking nothing, nothing could go wrong, ooh now I know (Invisible Touch; performing artist: Genesis)

I used to think that I could not go wrong ("I Believe I Can Fly"; performing artist: R. Kelly)

Silver's law: If Murphy's law can go wrong it will. (references; author: unknown)

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame. (references; author: unknown)

Why Sailors Go Wrong (1928)

When Things Go Wrong (1916)

Why Things Go Wrong (1985)

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Books

• Murphy's Law 2000: What Else Can Go Wrong in the 21st Century (reference)

• Murphy's Law 2003 Calendar: Humorous Laws, Principles, and Rules About Everything That Can Go Wrong (reference)

• Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong! (Captain Chuck's the Adventures of Artie the Airplane and His Friends) (reference)

• Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--and How to Avoid Them (reference)

• The Sick Book: Questions and Answers About Hiccups and Mumps, Sneezes and Bumps and Other Things That Go Wrong With Us (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Water sample bottles in a mess Caption - "Sometimes things go wrong" OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

You can't go wrong. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Here you go wrong in your arithmetic, and I must, however reluctantly, bid you farewell.

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Health

Since the immune system is tremendously complex, hundreds of things can go wrong during development and sometimes the backup systems cannot compensate for the defects. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "go wrong": go wrong in ♦ make smth. go wrong ♦ To go wrong. Additional references.

Albanian

gabohem (be mistaken, make a break for it, make a mistake, misbelieve, trip), prishem (be destroyed, break off, decay, decompose, deteriorate, fail, fall, fall out, fall to pieces, go awry, go phut, pack up, perish, putrefy, quarrel, rot, run to seed, separate, take apart, touch, turn sour). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فشل (balk, be failed, be unable to do, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, cower, defeat, dud, fail, failure, fiasco, fizzle out, flop, frustration, go awry, lose courage, lose ground, lose heart, make a hash of it, miscarry, miss, miss fire, miss the mark, torpedo, trip up, unsuccess, washout), ‏ضل السبيل, ‏خفق (baulk, beat, beating, bust, collapse, come, come to grief, dilute, fall, fizzle out, flap, flummox, flunk, go by the board, goof, misfire, miss, muddle, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsate, pulsation, throb, whip), ‏أخطأ (err, fluff, fumble, goof, make a mistake, misfire, miss, mistake, sin, slip, stumble, trip up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сбърквам пътя, отклонявам се от правия път (go astray, stray, wander), обърквам се (become confused, get flurried, lose oneself, stumble), не давам резултат, провалям се (break down, collapse, come to grief, fail, fall through, fizzle out, fold, go awry, go phut, go to pot, misfire, slump, sour, tumble down), пропадам (abyss, collapse, fail, fall through, go, go to the dogs, go under, lose), повреждам се (be damaged, break down, flaw, get out of order). (various references)

Chinese 

�'錯 (can't go wrong, I'm quite sure., You can rest assured.). (various references)

Czech

zmýlit se (make a mistake, mistake, slip up), spustit se, selhat (abort, backfire, break down, come to nothing, fail, fall down on the job, fizzle out, give out, lapse, miscarry, misfire), jet špatnì, jít špatnì. (various references)

Finnish

mennä pieleen (go off the rails, go phut, go to the devil), joutua epäkuntoon (break down, get out of gear, get out of order). (various references)

French

tomber en panne, se tromper, mal marcher, détraquer (make smth. go wrong). (various references)

German

schiefgehen. (various references)

Greek 

κάνω λάθοσ (be wrong, mistake, slip up). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תקלקל (deteriorate, go bad, go to the dogs, perish, spoil), ל�"שתבש (be spoiled, come unstuck), לטעות (err, make a mistake, mistake, slip, slip up). (various references)

Hungarian

elromlik (go phut, to addle, to break down, to crap out, to get spoiled, to go bad, to go on the fritz, to go phut, to go wrong). (various references)

Italian

sbagliare (be mistaken, be wrong, err, go wrong in, make a mistake, miscalculate, Miss, mistake, slip up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

罷り�"違う (to go wrong, to turn for the worse), 罷り�"違えば (if the worst happens, if things go wrong). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まかりまちがう (to go wrong, to turn for the worse), まかりまちがえば (if the worst happens, if things go wrong). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogay ongwray

Romanian

greşi drumul. (various references)

Russian 

не удаваться (come unstuck), не получаться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pogrešiti (be mistaken, blunder, err, make a mistake, mis-step, slip up). (various references)

Spanish

salir mal (go amiss, go awry, miscarry), malograrse (fail), extraviarse (aberrate, err, get lost, go astray, lose oneself, miscarry, straggle, stray, stray off, wander), equivocarse (bark up the wrong tree, be on the wrong tack, deceive, deceive oneself, err, lapse, make a mistake, misbelieve, misdo, mistake, slip up, trip, trip up), averiarse (addle, break down, fail, give up, pack up, ruin, spoil, to spoil). (various references)

Swedish

urspåra (run off the rails). (various references)

Turkish

ters gitmek (back fire, backfire, go awry, miscarry, not to go well), istenen sonucu vermemek, bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset). (various references)

labaris, labatur, labi, labitur, labor, lapsa, lapsi, lapsos, lapsu, lapsus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gorgon.

-2 letters: grown, wrong.

-3 letters: gogo, gong, goon, gown, grog, grow, nogg, worn.

-4 letters: goo, gor, nog, noo, nor, now, own, row, wog, won, woo.

-5 letters: go, no, on, or, ow, wo.

+3 letters: nongrowing, outgrowing, wrongdoing.

+4 letters: hornswoggle, overgrowing, wrongdoings.

+5 letters: hornswoggled, hornswoggles.