come unstuck

/kˈʌm ʌnstˈʌk/

[phrase]

to come unstuck

[PHRASE]

(of an idea, plan, etc.) to utterly fail

Examples

1. This swindle came unstuck when the drugstore’s rep called in the next day, only to find the place shuttered up.

2. And I just kind of talk about the process and usually by doing that we come unstuck.

3. As he looked back over the history of Florence and the Italian states more generally, he observed that nice princes, statesmen, and merchants always come unstuck.

4. it's not anything i got on here this is glue that's come unstuck