1 to experience difficulties and fail: --
It was in the third round of the championships that they came unstuck.
I am concerned that too many authorities are planning too rigidly for their areas and in that context, many of them will become unstuck.
The system will fail and the whole proposal will become unstuck.
He cannot say that the economy will come unstuck.
If they have to face additional costs, some will pull out and the whole scheme will come unstuck.
The employer, therefore, puts his hand into his pocket and makes up the difference in the scheme because the scheme itself has become unstuck.
If this is the sort of statistic that he proposes to use, he will come unstuck.
All systems where the supreme leader stays at the top for too long have tended to come unstuck in the end.
At that point he would equivocate and his previous impeccable arithmetic would come unstuck.