| 单词 | foul-up |
| 释义 | foul-up (once / 281413 pages) n WORD FAMILY foul-up USAGE EXAMPLESTrump showed no inclination to hold anyone accountable for a real-world foul-up. Washington Post(Jul 19, 2016) In the pre-match ceremony foul-up, Uruguay’s players stood silently, many of them with blank stares, as the wrong anthem was played. Washington Times(Jun 05, 2016) The deletion of the document has been portrayed by agency officials to Senate investigators as an “inadvertent” foul-up by the inspector general. MSNBC(May 17, 2016) n an embarrassing mistake Syn|Hypo|Hyper bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, pratfall 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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