come a gutser

come a gutser

1. slang To fall down. Primarily heard in Australia. These shoes are too big and caused me to come a gutser as I was walking down the street.
2. slang To fail. Primarily heard in Australia. Once heralded as a future star of the tech world, Shane came a gutser when his product proved to be a dud.
See also: come
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

come a gutser

suffer a failure or defeat. informal
Gutser (also spelled gutzer ) is explained in Fraser and Gibbons' Soldier and Sailor Words ( 1925 ) as ‘pre-war slang, and an old term among Scottish boys for falling flat on the water in diving, instead of making a clean header’. In air-force slang come (or fetch) a gutser meant ‘crash’.
See also: come
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • come a cropper
  • come a-cropper
  • bounce up and down
  • come down with
  • be down to (one)
  • be down to somebody/something
  • be down to something
  • be down to (do something)
  • close down
  • close down and shut down
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Sadly, this once great track doesn't provide much of a jumping test these days and you need to be pretty clumsy to come a gutser over these glorified hurdles.
Don't be wrong .. get on Right; VALUE SCOPE