drop the ball

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drop the ball 的定义

  1. Make an error; miss an opportunity. For example, She really dropped the ball when she forgot to call back, or He dropped the ball, turning down their offer. This expression comes from sports where a player who fails to catch a ball is charged with an error. Its use for more general kinds of mistakes dates from about 1950.

drop the ball 近义词

drop the ball

等同于 miscalculate

drop the ball

等同于 misjudge

drop the ball

等同于 miss

drop the ball

等同于 muff

drop the ball

等同于 slip

drop the ball

等同于 blunder

drop the ball

等同于 bungle

drop the ball

等同于 misestimate

drop the ball

等同于 misreckon

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等同于 err

drop the ball

等同于 falter

drop the ball

等同于 flounder

更多drop the ball例句

  1. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  2. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  3. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  4. During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.
  5. But with the pipeline, transportation costs drop and production would be higher.
  6. Before he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"
  7. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  8. At a quarter past seven he took his leave and we let drop our anchor where we were, off Cape Tekke.
  9. It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
  10. Now and then he touched one with his long and sallow fingers, lifted its cover, then let it drop mechanically.