This flub still haunts me today.
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Flub
//flʌb//
Synonyms for "flub" (93 found)
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Translations
3 translations across 2 languages.
Spanish
2 entries- metida de pata noun (mistake)
- meter la pata verb (to err)
Swedish
1 entries- tabbe noun (mistake)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
1962 November 6, Richard Nixon, “Gentlemen, this is my last press conference”, 2008, Rick Perlstein (editor), Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents, page 111, I made a talk on television, a talk in which I made a flub—one of the few that I make, not because I′m so good on television but because I′ve been doing it a long time. I made a flub in which I said I was running for governor of the United States.
Source: wiktionary
A flub can be a slight cinematic slip-up or a major gaffe.
Source: wiktionary
The pressure public speaking puts on a person will occasionally cause these little flubs, so don′t panic when they happen to you. The worst way to deal with a flub is to panic and make a big deal out of it.
Source: wiktionary
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