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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

go horribly right en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To produce a technically correct result, but with highly undesirable consequences.
    • I describe it as a stunt that went horribly right because it was designed to fail, in the sense that Chas was going to be the comic relief, to be deployed when we got stopped. 2020 January 19, Julian Morrow (quoted), Jenny Valentish, Naaman Zhou, “How The Chaser invaded Apec: 'A small video tape was secreted behind his scrotum'”, in The Guardian:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
went horribly right Tense=Past lexicographic
going horribly right Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gone horribly right Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
goes horribly right Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic