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Definition of cock-up in English: cock-upnoun British informal Something done badly or inefficiently. 〈英，非正式〉做得很糟糕的事；做得效率低下的事 we've made a total cock-up of it 我们把事情彻底搞糟了。 Example sentencesExamples - The company insists it was all the result of a cock-up and not conspiracy.
- Tempting as it is to see this as a gigantic conspiracy, I suspect it's more of a cock-up.
- In what is either a master stroke of publicity or a massive cock-up, the plot of the long-awaited novel may have been leaked.
- They derived from different causes and different cock-ups, and did not all contain the same level of danger to public safety.
- There's been a cock-up on the social arrangements front.
- I have been a lifelong follower of the cock-up rather than conspiracy theory, and it seems blatantly obvious that jockeys do make mistakes from time to time.
- Let us not kid ourselves that we have any idea of the true total cost of the cock-ups which occur so regularly with mega-projects.
- The subsequent A-levels fiasco contains elements that are common to other recent political cock-ups, over issues ranging from health to transport and farming.
- Keep reading as we try to find more interesting celebrity cock-ups from around the world.
- The ongoing series of cock-ups makes clear that the war on terror is a slogan in search of a mission.
- The most incredible feature of this success is that he has achieved it after so many cock-ups, mistakes and bad calls.
- I've always regarded him as an amiable buffoon who made some terrible cock-ups during his career.
- They neglected to mention the dozen phone calls I had to make to sort out the cock-ups.
- If you took all my mistakes and cock-ups in my life and laid them out in a line, you would say this guy is the most stupid and inept person ever.
- Administrative cock-ups do happen, and can go unnoticed for years.
- The question is, was it a cock-up or a conspiracy?
- It has taken months of terrible cock-ups for government failure to register on the opinion-poll radar, so the subject does merit further hammering.
- A kitchen cock-up meant we got salmon stir-fried with celery and a sweet and hot sauce, which was tasty enough, but not what we ordered.
- To those hacks like me who find life littered, as it were, with cock-ups rather than conspiracies, this is rather more plausible.
- It always depresses me that people remember the cock-ups rather than the wonderful food.
Synonyms mistake, slip, error, blunder, miscalculation, oversight, omission, gaffe, faux pas, slip of the pen, slip of the tongue, lapse
Definition of cock-up in US English: cock-upnounˈkɑkˌəpˈkäkˌəp British informal Something done badly or inefficiently. 〈英，非正式〉做得很糟糕的事；做得效率低下的事 we've made a total cock-up of it 我们把事情彻底搞糟了。 Example sentencesExamples - To those hacks like me who find life littered, as it were, with cock-ups rather than conspiracies, this is rather more plausible.
- It always depresses me that people remember the cock-ups rather than the wonderful food.
- The company insists it was all the result of a cock-up and not conspiracy.
- The most incredible feature of this success is that he has achieved it after so many cock-ups, mistakes and bad calls.
- Tempting as it is to see this as a gigantic conspiracy, I suspect it's more of a cock-up.
- Let us not kid ourselves that we have any idea of the true total cost of the cock-ups which occur so regularly with mega-projects.
- The ongoing series of cock-ups makes clear that the war on terror is a slogan in search of a mission.
- I have been a lifelong follower of the cock-up rather than conspiracy theory, and it seems blatantly obvious that jockeys do make mistakes from time to time.
- I've always regarded him as an amiable buffoon who made some terrible cock-ups during his career.
- They derived from different causes and different cock-ups, and did not all contain the same level of danger to public safety.
- In what is either a master stroke of publicity or a massive cock-up, the plot of the long-awaited novel may have been leaked.
- There's been a cock-up on the social arrangements front.
- They neglected to mention the dozen phone calls I had to make to sort out the cock-ups.
- Administrative cock-ups do happen, and can go unnoticed for years.
- Keep reading as we try to find more interesting celebrity cock-ups from around the world.
- The question is, was it a cock-up or a conspiracy?
- The subsequent A-levels fiasco contains elements that are common to other recent political cock-ups, over issues ranging from health to transport and farming.
- If you took all my mistakes and cock-ups in my life and laid them out in a line, you would say this guy is the most stupid and inept person ever.
- A kitchen cock-up meant we got salmon stir-fried with celery and a sweet and hot sauce, which was tasty enough, but not what we ordered.
- It has taken months of terrible cock-ups for government failure to register on the opinion-poll radar, so the subject does merit further hammering.
Synonyms mistake, slip, error, blunder, miscalculation, oversight, omission, gaffe, faux pas, slip of the pen, slip of the tongue, lapse
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