balls (something) up
phrasal verb with ballsverbuk /bɔːlz/ us /bɑːlz/
UKoffensive
a rude phrase meaning to spoil something by making a mistake or doing something stupid:
Trust me to balls up the interview!我面试肯定会搞砸的！
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making mistakes
balls
blunder
blunderingly
bodge
botch
making
misdiagnose
misdiagnosis
misdirect
misdirection
misremember
misrender
misstate
mistake
mistranscribe
stumbling
stumblingly
to err is human (to forgive divine).idiom
trip (someone) up
uncorrectable
balls-up
noun[ Cusually singular ]
UKoffensiveuk /ˈbɔːlz.ʌp/ us /ˈbɑːlz.ʌp/
something that is done wrong or badly: 一团糟
The whole trip was a complete balls-up.整个行程简直一团糟。
Synonym
mess-upmainly UKinformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Failing and doing badly
abjectly
at-risk
backbencher
be on your beam endsidiom
be running on emptyidiom
blow (someone/something) up
bomb
egg
flog a dead horseidiom
flop
flub
flunk out
founder
fray around/at the edgesidiom
mess
running on emptyidiom
sclerotic
screw
screw (something) up
sign someone's death warrant
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