| 单词 | gaffe |
| 释义 | gaffe (gæf ) also gaff Word forms: gaffes 1. countable noun A gaffe is a stupid or careless mistake, for example when you say or do something that offends or upsets people. He made an embarrassing gaffe at the convention last weekend. ...social gaffes committed by high-ranking individuals. Synonyms: blunder, mistake, error, indiscretion 2. blow the gaffe/gaff phrase If you blow the gaffe or blow the gaff, you tell someone something that other people wanted you to keep secret. [British, informal] Quotations: A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth Collocations: major gaffe But his admission was last night seen as a major gaffe. The Sun A year later came a major gaffe. Times, Sunday Times There were no major gaffes or blows, from either side. Times, Sunday Times The move follows a series of major gaffes and rows with the country's top lawyers. The Sun Diplomats are interesting people and wear their influence lightly, but they are also inevitably quite diplomatic and are never going to make a gaffe on camera. Times, Sunday Times And he made his gaffe even more distasteful by explaining how he uses a 100 bread maker with expensive flour sourced from his constituency. The Sun She made the gaffe as thousands of staff faced the chop, with trainee nurses walking straight from training to the dole. The Sun |
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