mess-upnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈmes.ʌp/us/ˈmes.ʌp/mainly UK informalsomething that has been done badly:
He made a real mess-up of the sales figures.
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Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- cock-up
- dead duck
- foul-up
- free fall
- hash
- lemon
- lost cause
- lulu
- mess
- might-have-been
- parody
- slush pile
- track record
- train wreck
- turkey
- underachiever
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