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louse up
Thesaurus| Verb | 1. louse up - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, ball up, spoil, muff, screw up, fumble, blowgo wrong, miscarry, fail - be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" |
louse upverbSlang. To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess:ball up, blunder, boggle, botch, bungle, foul up, fumble, gum up, mess up, mishandle, mismanage, muddle, muff, spoil.Informal: bollix up, muck up.Slang: blow, goof up, screw up, snafu.Idiom: make a muck of.louse up
louse (someone or something) upTo ruin, spoil, mess up, or bungle someone or something. Her sudden decision to quit in the middle of the project really loused us up. I am not letting your crummy attitude louse up my vacation—if you want to be grouch, you can go somewhere else and do it alone!See also: louse, uplouse someone or something upInf. to ruin something; to mess someone or something up. You really loused me up! You got me in a real mess! Who loused up my scheme?See also: louse, uplouse upSpoil, ruin, bungle. For example, The bad weather loused up our plans, or Your change of mind really loused me up. This slangy expression originated in World War I, when infestation with lice was the common lot of soldiers in the trenches; its figurative use dates from the 1930s. See also: louse, uplouse upv. To cause something to fail because of poor handling; botch something: The president loused up the merger, costing the company millions of dollars. Let me tell the story—you always louse it up.See also: louse, uplouse (something) up, toTo ruin or botch, to blunder. Undoubtedly alluding to the unhappy condition of being “loused up,” that is, infested with lice, this slangy term dates from the first half of the 1900s. At first it was used as a transitive verb, as in John O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra, “Lousing up your date.” A decade or two later it was also being used intransitively, as in “Don’t trust her with the reservations; she’s sure to louse up.”See also: louselouse up
Related to louse up: delouseSynonyms for louse upverb to harm irreparably through inept handling; make a messSynonyms- ball up
- blunder
- boggle
- botch
- bungle
- foul up
- fumble
- gum up
- mess up
- mishandle
- mismanage
- muddle
- muff
- spoil
- bollix up
- muck up
- blow
- goof up
- screw up
- snafu
Synonyms for louse upverb make a mess of, destroy or ruinSynonyms- bobble
- bodge
- bollix
- bollix up
- bollocks
- bollocks up
- botch
- botch up
- bumble
- bungle
- flub
- fluff
- foul up
- fuck up
- mess up
- mishandle
- muck up
- ball up
- spoil
- muff
- screw up
- fumble
- blow
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