Dishonest people are bound to come a cropper in the end.

不老实的人到头来总是要栽跟头的。

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Some of the outsiders that have bought firms in Silicon Valley come a cropper because they try to import their own hierarchies.

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Given the testing conditions at the West Sussex course (several horses had already come a cropper around the famously tight right-hand bend), this was never going to be a procession on the scale of the 11-length drubbing Frankel handed out at Royal Ascot back in June.

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