drop the ball
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
MWE
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Variants
- synonym
- blunder
- pasttense
- dropped the ball
- presentparticiple
- dropping the ball
- thirdpersonsingular
- drops the ball
- pastparticiple
- dropped the ball