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clanger
/ 藞办濒忙艐蓹 /
noun
- informal.a conspicuous mistake (esp in the phrase drop a clanger )
- something that clangs or causes a clang
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of clanger1
Idioms and Phrases
- drop a clanger, British Slang. to blunder.
Example Sentences
鈥淗ere鈥檚 a clanger,鈥 Sydney said, noticing an obvious mistake.
Its flowers are extravagant, with an extra-long, maroon-purple clanger dangling from each fuchsia bell; its distinctive leaves are heart shaped, with toothed edges.
Scandal followed him as closely as adulation, as Warne took money from illegal bookmakers, was banned for using prohibited drugs and sailed through gossip-column indiscretions and social media clangers.
"Occasionally he came out with a real clanger, but mostly he was just trying to be pleasant and light-hearted," she added in a BBC Radio Devon interview.
"Some night he'll move and other nights he'll stand and play, Some nights he might be a bit out of it and drop the odd clanger but he never coasts."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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