Meanings (ES + gloss)
metida de pata
An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
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…
A flub can be a slight cinematic slip-up or a major gaffe.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
meter la pata
To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.
The actor that detained her had one line in that particular scene and flubbed it. And then flubbed it again...and again. And again, all the while assuring the director and the crew…
‘Stage fright? So? What are you babbling ′bout? You′re mad as a snake!’ ‘Ever since I was a kid. I was in the Christmas Pageant one year and flubbed my line.’ ‘What was your line?’…
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