famous last words
informalsaid when someone makes a statement that is shown very soon, and in an embarrassing way, to be wrong:
I told him categorically that we could never be anything more than friends. Famous last words! Within a few months we were engaged.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making mistakes
- balls
- balls (sth) up
- blunder
- bodge
- botch
- drop
- famous
- goof
- making
- misdirect
- misstate
- put
- slip up
- speak/talk out of turn idiom
- to err is human (to forgive divine). idiom
- trip
- trip (sb) up
- turn
- unforced
- wrong
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