2 Sentences With "have come a cropper"

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But thanks to a dry summer, the tubers have come a cropper. from Economist
"This is the sort of rhetoric that one encounters at the bare beginnings of a process that can last years, and of course the only processes that have been run with North Korea on the nuclear issue have come a cropper," said a former U.S. official involved in talks with North Korea who spoke on condition of anonymity, using an idiom meaning failed. from Reuters