balls (sth) up
UK offensive— phrasal verb with balls uk/bɔːlz/us/bɑːlz/verb
to spoil something by making a mistake or doing something stupid:
Trust me to balls up the interview!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making mistakes
- balls
- blunder
- bodge
- botch
- confuse
- drop
- famous last words idiom
- goof
- making
- misdirect
- misstate
- put
- slip up
- speak/talk out of turn idiom
- to err is human (to forgive divine). idiom
- trip
- trip (sb) up
- turn
- unforced
- wrong
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