come a gutser

present singular third person comes a gutser · participle present coming a gutser · past came a gutser · alternative come a gutzer

1. AustraliaNew ZealandslangTo do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face.

   Until he tripped again and came a gutser. This time he stayed down.

   2013, Glyn Parry, Sad Boys, →ISBN

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   Slippery as a butcher's apron it is, and I comes a gutser twice before I gets down to the stag.

   1964, Ron Helmer, Stag Party, page 82

   You took off up Main Street past the church, jumped the gutter, two cars and a four-foot fence, and finally come a gutser in the gully below the cop station.

   2001, Anita Bell, Crystal Coffin, →ISBN, page 33

   “Come off it, skipper. There's nobody to miss us if this scow comes a gutser. We're expendable, even more so than the average Rim Runner officer. And that's saying plenty.”

   2012, A. Bertram Chandler, Ride the Star Winds, →ISBN

2. AustraliaNew ZealandslangTo fail miserably; to make a huge mistake; to fall flat on one's face.

   Unless we come a gutser, we won't get near them.

   2016, Art Collins, In The Outback, →ISBN

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   Ole Fritz keeps on tryin' ter feel our possies at night with small patrols, an' they tried ter raid us two nights ago, but came a gutser, 'coz we hopped out an' met 'em, an' they put their 'ands up.

   1919, C. Hampton Thorp, A Handful of Ausseys, page 288

   The Government has come a gutser there, and it will come a gutser in the health area when it tries to put the user-pays principle in operation.

   1982, New Zealand Parliament House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 443, page 439

   Well, where you all come a gutser is, over here, we think we're born to rule YOU.

   2011, Alan Ramsay, A Matter of Opinion, →ISBN, page 90