What the &%$£ is all that about?!
2007-01-20 07:30:07 · 14 answers · asked by Buck Flair 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I don't know???
If pears are wrong I don't wanna be right.
2007-01-20 07:33:20 · answer #1 · answered by So'sYerFace 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question! I've had a peep on the web and this is one idea:
To go pear shaped is an expression used to indicate that a scheme has not
been perfectly executed. The phrase seems to have originated in British
English in the late 1940s or early 1950s. 1 have come across several
suggested origins, but the best, for me, is related to training aircraft
pilots. At some stage they are encouraged to try to fly loops - very
difficult to make perfectly circular; often the trainee pilot's loops
would go pear shaped.
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2007-01-20 07:36:51 · answer #2 · answered by smee_1972 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It went pear-shaped" is used, in common English jargon, to refer to a project that resulted in failure. It suggests that the fiasco was beyond the control of any specific individual. The expression it is not in any way regarded as offensive or vulgar.
Now for the etymology: There are several versions and it's a case of choosing the one which seems to you the most likely.
Some sources insist that its origins lie in ballooning, and that a pear suggests the shape of a collapsed balloon. Others believe that 'pear-shaped' is rooted in aircraft terminology. The story goes that certain types of aircraft engine casings might go 'pear-shaped' in the event of failure. There is a sidebar theory that the expression relates to pilot efforts to attempt perfectly circular loops in the air. Often, their circles would become pear-shaped; hence the connection to failure.
Math experts have yet another opinion. Quoting from an English website : Pear-shaped refers to a so-called "normal" distribution where the extremities of the distribution have become enlarged. In such a situation, improbable events would becomer much more probable.
2007-01-20 07:36:29 · answer #3 · answered by gixerbry 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Would you like to be pear shaped? You'd thing you'be gone wrong if you where pear shaped?!
2007-01-20 07:34:27 · answer #4 · answered by ian r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because you feel like your heart and guts have dropped into your backside thus making you pear shaped, sorry only thing I could come up with.
2007-01-20 07:34:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all the hope, enthusiasm and positive energy that keeps it up...droops down to the bottom...like a pear shape.
2007-01-20 07:41:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what do u mean pear-shaped?
2007-01-20 07:35:38 · answer #7 · answered by jml 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I thought things went haywire.
2007-01-20 07:36:22 · answer #8 · answered by Bowllynn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I suppose if it went well it would be symmetrical in shape.
2007-01-20 07:36:06 · answer #9 · answered by Spiny Norman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gixerbry knows best, good answer! P.S. And I say Buck Flair also!!!!!
2007-01-20 08:00:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋