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dropping the ballphrasepresent participle of drop the ball to make a mistakeI'm so sorry I dropped the ball and forgot to buy the wine for the dinner party. blundering, boobing(British), erring, flubbing, fluffing, fouling up, fumbling, goofing (up), lousing up, messing (up), screwing up, slipping up, stumbling, tripping noddingbobbling, botching, bungling, butchering, foozling, mangling, mishandling, muffing, murderingmiscalculating, misconceiving, miscounting, miscuing, misdeeming, misgauging(also misgaging), misjudging, mistakingmisconstruing, misinterpreting, misunderstanding laying an egg |