IDIOMS
come unstuck
1 to become separated from sth it was stuck or fastened to:
The flap of the envelope had come unstuck.
2 (BrE, informal) (of a person, plan, etc.) to fail completely, with bad results:
Their plans came badly unstuck. * If you keep on taking risks, you'll come unstuck one day.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for unstuck is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is unstuck a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, unstuck is tagged as adjective.
Does unstuck appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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