RichThesaurus
blow up in one's face
vs
come a cropper
blow up in one's face
verb
To fail disastrously.
come a cropper
verb
To suffer some accident or misfortune; to fail.
To fall headlong from a horse.
How often have the words
blow up in one's face
and
come a cropper
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)