单词 | foul up |
释义 | foul up From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfoul up phrasal verb informal1 to do something wrong or spoil something by making mistakes → foul-up We can’t afford to foul up this time.foul something ↔ up Glen completely fouled up the seating arrangements.2 foul something ↔ up to make something very dirty, especially with waste He lit a cigarette and started to foul up the air with stinging yellow smoke. → foul→ See Verb tablefoul-upˈfoul-up noun [countable] informalMISTAKEa problem caused by a stupid or careless mistake → foul up a computer system foul-upExamples from the Corpusfoul-up• I had to retake my driver's test because of some clerical foul-up. |
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