to not succeed at something
to fall over
to fail at a venture
something that has come to its ruin
to fail miserably
The minister came a cropper as soon as she was elected. Hence she was transferred from her ministry and given something else to do in the cabinet.
She seemed to come a cropper shortly after her promotion as cabinet minister.
There is no origin for this idiom
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