| 单词 | pratfall |
| 释义 | pratfall (once / 37052 pages) n A pratfall is a mistake that is particularly embarrassing, like going to a job interview with stains on your shirt. It can also be a silly goof done on purpose to make people laugh, like slipping on a banana peel. A pratfall originally referred to a fall on your butt, which was often done by comic actors for laughs. From there, it came to mean all sorts of unplanned screw-ups. A restaurant caught serving horsemeat has committed a pratfall. A politician’s inappropriate joke is a verbal pratfall. A football player who runs the wrong way and scores for the other team has done a pratfall. Oops! WORD FAMILYpratfall: pratfalls USAGE EXAMPLESLos Angeles lost 11 of its final 12 games in an incredible pratfall. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Los Angeles was 3-1 after that road victory, but lost 11 of its final 12 games in an incredible pratfall. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) But Jukin’s existence performs a strange sort of alchemy, retroactively transforming these pratfalls into some kind of labor. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1n a fall onto your buttocks Hyper fall, spill, tumble a sudden drop from an upright position 2n an embarrassing mistake Syn|Hypo|Hyper bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up bobble the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball spectaclea blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself bulla serious and ludicrous blunder fumble, muff(sports) dropping the ball fluffa blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip, solecisma socially awkward or tactless act howlera glaring blunder clangera conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate misstep, stumble, trip, trip-upan unintentional but embarrassing blunder error, fault, mistake a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention |
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